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Rookie cornerback Andrew Booth Jr. impresses early at Vikings training camp

Yes, it's early. No, they aren't wearing pads. But if there's one young, unestablished player turning heads through two days of Vikings training camp, it's rookie cornerback Andrew Booth Jr.

The second-round draft pick and hopeful starter opposite veteran Patrick Peterson is moving well, displaying good instincts, says he's 100% back from offseason sports hernia surgery, and needed all of one practice to intercept Kirk Cousins, an 11-year vet who doesn't throw many of them.

"[Booth] was playing the technique that [defensive coordinator] Ed [Donatell] and [defensive backs coach] Daronte [Jones] coach really well," coach Kevin O'Connell said Thursday about Booth's pick the day before.