Former Minnesota Vikings quarterback Taylor Heinicke notched his second career start in the nation’s capital on wildcard weekend. Much like the failed coup attempt a few miles away on January 6th, the attention of the national media was seized. Vikings faithful are intimately familiar with Heinicke as the 27-year-old began his NFL career in Minnesota about five years ago.
Heinicke is a part of a large fraternity of Vikings practice-squad players that fans obsessively crave (like Kyle Sloter or Moritz Böhringer). There is a feverish tendency by some to spot preseason glory and continuously correlate that success to hypothetical regular-season play.