Xavier Scott

But in the end, it kind of backfired on Minnesota because they ended up shutting Derisaw down as the season went on.

there was a couple games he missed here and there so they were kind of resetting his progress a little bit as they were trying to salvage a basically losing season we ended up about 500 but basically the season was lost once we were out of playoff contention or those playoff chances were looking very very slim and as a result our running game suffered so much you would look at how aaron jones's stats were his first year in minnesota to last year and it's night and day as far as the aaron jones that we saw in those two seasons one season he was absolutely tearing it up one of the best running backs in the NFC and definitely in the division one of them Jameer Gibbs is still in that division of course and then you also have the last season where he was barely averaging anything of significance for the Minnesota Vikings especially in fantasy relevance if you had him in fantasy it was not very pretty and just overall in general the running attack was not pretty at all for Minnesota Despite having Jordan Mason and Aaron Jones in there, Xavier Scott, even though it was in garbage time when he was getting opportunities, ended up being one of our most efficient running backs, which is mind-blowing to say because now he's on the practice squad.

But having Christian Derrissaw back, having a healthy offensive line in general, it's not just Derrissaw from last year.

We didn't have Ryan Kelly for a lot of the year.

Um, all right.

Hey, next one comes to us from M.A., or excuse me, M.M. From far away on YouTube, he says, "I think the only real fumble made by the Vikings cutting down to 53 was allow, uh, allowing Xavier Scott to walk to da Bears in favor of keeping Claiborne.

That said, uh, are we going to see Claiborne in that third RB role against the Packers on Sunday to spell Jones or Mason?"

I, yeah, I, I, I do think initially, and I, I don't necessarily disagree with the thing, um, uh, that, that he's suggesting about Scott, although it would've been hard to kind of tell that in advance.

It, it appears-

Yeah

... that Xavier Scott was sort of annoyed that he didn't win the RB3 job and so he, he goes to the Bears.

I don't think that was a great decision by Xavier Scott, frankly-

But this is why I was so excited about Matthew Bailey, because I think he really brings a physicality on that back end that's missing.

You know, Xavier Scott had some cramps and stuff.

He was okay.

He didn't necessarily flash to me, but I think he's going to be a good player.

camp.

And a new back here that's been here this week, Xavier Scott, who we don't really know a lot about.

But when you start getting further and further down the depth chart, if Roshan Johnson's got to play significant offensive steps for you in week one, now you've got to troubleshoot some other areas.

And so it is a wait and see, but it is a cross your fingers and hope for the best kind of scenario for the Bears right now.

The Mike's going to rush the passer most of the time, but seeing some of those other linebackers blitz and get Matthew Bailey involved.

Didn't see a lot of Xavier Scott get involved.

He had cramps in the first half, but yeah, most of that secondary wasn't tested.

Outside of Tywon Cox, they threw at Tywon Cox quite a bit.