Josh Oliver Receives High Praise from ESPN

Christopher Gates has been the lead writer at The Daily Norseman since the site launched in July of 2006, covering the Minnesota Vikings day in and day out.

Tight end Josh Oliver recently got a pretty impressive contract extension from the Minnesota Vikings, and it may have struck a lot of people as unusual given that he wasn’t particularly productive based on the numbers that we can see. However, there’s a reason that Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and company opened the checkbook for him for a second time.

Bill Barnwell of ESPN has a list of players who are the best at particularly specialized roles around the NFL, and he has Oliver listed as the best blocking tight end in the NFL, which is something…