While he watched the Vikings' loss to the Lions on Sunday sitting at home with a dislocated left shoulder, Dalvin Cook did a rehabilitation workout that left him feeling curiously optimistic about returning to play against the Steelers on Thursday night.
"I was just doing stuff at home, and I'm moving around, and I'm like, 'I feel good,'" Cook said. "And the next day I go in, I tell [head athletic trainer Eric Sugarman] how I feel, I see the doc, they test me out. The only thing I had to do was go show them my strength was back and everything was back, and I was good.