Looking at ESPN’s “best fit” free agent for the Vikings

Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty ImagesThere are going to be a lot of pieces over the next couple of weeks about what NFL teams should do when free agency officially opens on 13 March (with the still-absurdly named “legal tampering” period kicking off two days before that). One prominent outlet believes that there’s a veteran out there who could immediately help the Minnesota Vikings at one of their positions of significant needs.

Behind the great E$PN paywall, NFL analyst Matt Bowen has taken ESPN’s list of the top 50 available free agents and determined which team is the best fit for each of them. Of those 50 players, Bowen only has one as a “best fit” for the Vikings. That player is cornerback…