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The NFL’s free company interval is about 4 weeks away, and the Minnesota Vikings want an answer at working again.
Our Vikings RB Predictions for the 2025 Offseason
The RB repair might arrive from free company, the 2025 NFL draft, or each. If the 2025 common season began tomorrow, Ty Chandler can be the RB1 primarily based on present roster building.
So, we requested all VikingsTerritory writers to call the RB1-RB2 combo by the point the calendar hits Could.
These are their solutions.
1. Aaron Jones & Kaleb Johnson
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VT Author: Cole Smith
Jones had an excellent 2024 season and is a superb locker-room chief. Nonetheless, he will probably be 31 and is at his finest when he has somebody to share the load with. Johnson, out of Iowa, is massive (6’0″, 225 kilos) and might add a bodily presence to the place.
2. Aaron Jones & Omarion Hampton
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VT Author: Dustin Baker
Aaron Jones loves the Vikings, and the franchise appears to like him. He’s a tradition man, and Minnesota doesn’t usually let these dudes slip away.
However as a result of Jones is previous in NFL phrases, common supervisor Kwesi Adofo-Mensah will commerce down the draftboard, permitting him to safe an additional 2nd-Spherical decide that may internet Hampton’s companies.
Hopefully Cam Akers will probably be again at RB3, too.
3. Cam Skattebo & Cam Akers
Arizona State working again C. Skattebo (4) escapes a deal with by Texas defensive lineman Alfred Collins (95) in the course of the fourth quarter within the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. © Michael Chow/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK through Imagn Photos.
VT Author: Josh Frey
Skattebo ought to be out there on Day 2. He’s able to doing nearly every thing on the working again place. Akers is a dependable backup if he stays wholesome and will keep in purple.
4. Aaron Jones & Cam Akers
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VT Author: Adam New
As you had been, Aaron Jones and Cam Akers will once more be RB1 and RB2 to begin the 2025 season.
5. Aaron Jones & Quinshon Judkins
Ohio State Buckeyes working again Quinshon Judkins (1) will get away from the Notre Dame Combating Irish protection for a long term within the third quarter in the course of the Faculty Soccer Playoff championship at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on January 20, 2025. © Samantha Madar/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK through Imagn Photos.
VT Author: Kyle Joudry
RB1 — Aaron Jones, who features because the starter however who carries a smaller workload than in 2024. RB2 — Quinshon Judkins, who will get sprinkled into the combination as MIN works towards creating their RB of the long run.
6. Aaron Jones & Cam Skattebo
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VT Author: Wes Johnson
The purple crew will method the offseason trying to retain one among Aaron Jones or Cam Akers after which look so as to add one other from this deep working again draft class. Insert Cam Skattebo.
t7. Aaron Jones & TreVeyon Henderson
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VT Author: Janik Eckardt
Minnesota will re-sign impending free agent Aaron Jones after a season with 1,500 yards from scrimmage. Nonetheless, on the age of 30, he’s not the long-term possibility. That man will arrive within the draft. Kevin O’Connell will fall in love with Ohio State’s TreVeyon Henderson, who is an effective cross protector, a receiving menace, and a stable runner.
t7. Aaron Jones & TreVeyon Henderson
Ohio State Buckeyes working again TreVeyon Henderson (32) scores a landing on a 75-yard landing catch and run towards Texas Longhorns within the second quarter of the Cotton Bowl Traditional in the course of the Faculty Soccer Playoff semifinal recreation at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on January, 10, 2025. © Kyle Robertson/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK through Imagn Photos.
VT Author: Henrique Gucciardi
Jones confirmed that he can nonetheless be a productive working again, and the teaching employees loves him, so it’s truthful to imagine that he will probably be again. In a “once in a generation” draft class, Kwesi Adofo-Mensah selects TreVeyon Henderson because the second a part of a really promising 1-2 punch.
t8. Kaleb Johnson & Cam Akers
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VT Author: Ted Schwerzler
RB1 is Cam Akers. The Vikings deliver him again and provides him the lead position. RB2 is a mid-round decide that competes with Ty Chandler for the position. Let’s go together with Kaleb Johnson of Iowa.
t8. Kaleb Johnson & Cam Akers
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VT Author: Ali Siddiqui
Vikings will say goodbye to Aaron Jones, who’s 30 years previous and will not be price what he asks for. They may re-sign Akers and draft Johnson.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his each day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options company, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple crew, with 4-7 episodes per week. His MIN obsession dates again to 1996. Listed responsible pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, ‘The Sopranos,’ Basset Hounds, and The Doorways (the band). He follows the NBA as carefully because the NFL.
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