Christian Darrisaw has missed most of the offseason due to injury, a disappointing introduction for a 1st-Round rookie. Kellen Mond showed, so far, that he is not ready for regular-season football. And then Everson Griffen re-signed for another Minnesota Vikings adventure after a one-year layoff with the Dallas Cowboys and Detroit Lions.
Those are some of the surprising storylines of the summer for the Vikings, albeit a couple of them disheartening. It was not necessarily surprising, but Danielle Hunter’s lack of a holdout was probably the biggest news of the summer. Had the Vikings embarked on a contractual standoff with their best pass rusher, the ride would’ve been bumpy.