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Linval Joseph: “I’m excited to put my hand down and kick my foot back.”

If you watched much of the Minnesota Vikings this past season, you would have noticed a trend involving Linval Joseph and the rest that interior defensive line. After being one of the best defensive tackles at pushing the pocket over the last six seasons, Joseph started finding himself on the sidelines in obvious passing-down situations.

Joseph’s 553 total defensive snaps played in 2019 was his least recorded since his 2015 season. This year, Mike Zimmer started relying on the younger defensive tackles on the Vikings to create pressure which slowly turned Joseph into a two-down run-stopping nose tackle.