As the Vikings prepared to practice short-handed at the quarterback position for a second time on Monday, coach Mike Zimmer doubled down on his critique of unvaccinated players and offered a simple summation of the risk to the Vikings: "I just feel like we're going to have guys miss games."
The Vikings signed Case Cookus on Monday after a workout with Jackson Erdmann and him; adding Cookus to the roster gave Minnesota two quarterbacks for Monday's practice, with Jake Browning likely to get most of the first-team work.
But with Kirk Cousins, Kellen Mond and Nate Stanley still on the COVID-19 reserve list, and Cousins expected to be out until Thursday as a high-risk close contact, Zimmer made his frustration with the situation even clearer.