Minnesota @ Cincinnati
Team Totals: Vikings 25.5, Bengals 22.5
All signs point toward Mike Zimmer’s Vikings reverting to a defense-oriented approach after last year’s club uncharacteristically submitted the league’s fourth-most points due to personnel shortages. DEs Everson Griffen and Danielle Hunter, DTs Sheldon Richardson, Michael Pierce, and Dalvin Tomlinson, and DBs Patrick Peterson and Mackensie Alexander check in as defensive additions major enough for Minnesota to control the Week 1 line of scrimmage, keep the Vikings in run-friendly script, and position Dalvin Cook to eat. … Kirk Cousins’ lack of rushing productivity and loss of breakout candidate TE Irv Smith (knee) for the season cap his ceiling. This is a game Minnesota could potentially dominate on the ground, capping pass volume. Cousins is a fine two-quarterback-league play but not a QB1 streamer.
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