The odds that Kevin McDermott was going to be the long snapper for the Minnesota Vikings in 2019 dropped significantly when the team spent a seventh-round draft pick on Austin Cutting this past April. Cutting won the competition relatively early in Training Camp, and now it turns out there might have been another reason that the decision was made as early as it was.
According to Chris Tomasson of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, McDermott had surgery on his right elbow on Friday, and the team reached an injury settlement with him, including footing the bill for that surgery.