Clarifications on a handful of Vikings roster moves

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty ImagesIn the interest of getting you the final 53-man roster for the Minnesota Vikings in a relatively timely manner. . .even after the team waited until after 5:00 PM Central to put it out there. . .we missed a couple of minor tidbits about a few of the last transactions that the team made while setting the roster.

First, there has been some clarification on the trade the Vikings made to acquire cornerback Mark Fields from the Kansas City Chiefs. While the original reports said that it was a seventh-round pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, and that’s partially correct. However, as Ben Goessling of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports, it’s a conditional…