Star Tribune · Aug 9, 2020
Vikings rookie cornerbacks will be thrown into fire without preseason games
Mike Hughes has the most career starts among current Vikings cornerbacks — but the 2018 first-round pick only has five.Aug. 9, 2015, was Trae Waynes’ welcome-to-the-NFL moment.
He was a blazing rookie and prized first-round draft pick when Vikings coach Mike Zimmer pushed him from the comfortable nest of training camp and into the real world of playing cornerback in a league whose rule book favors the guy you’re trying to cover.
It was a valuable, live-action learning experience. One that Zimmer and his peers won’t have with preseason games canceled in this oddball ramp-up to the 2020 season.
