Zavier Scott

Yes.

[laughs] Scotty Miller, Miller Moss, JP Richardson, Xavier Scott, the running back from Maine.

Xavier from Maine.

Former Minnesota Viking.

Is the scheme complex enough? Is this new run system complex enough that they can't get someone caught up to speed that quickly? I think that's a factor.

But you know what or who that wouldn't have been a factor for? Xavier Scott.

My favorite backup running back who had one bad game of pass protection in the preseason.

Everybody wrote him off.

We saw Xavier Scott in an NFL game in Ireland or was it London last year? Making plays, catching passes, looking like he belonged.

Much stronger back than DeMond Claiborne.

Has a track record of being a much better pass protector than DeMond Claiborne, who is so undersized.

DeMond Claiborne, not a pass protector, not a pass catcher.

Can you get everybody lined up? And with young wide receivers, I mean, I think it's going to be a really, really rough ride for Malik Willis, but it's not that he has nothing.

Um, when you talk about, uh, Xavier Scott, yeah, I, I don't know, um, why Xavier Scott chose to sign with the practice squad of the Chicago bears rather than coming back to the practice squad of the Vikings.

I don't know if they wanted him, uh, or if they just decided they were going to move on.

I don't know the answer to that.

Hmm, we'll start with this one from Matt B on Blue Sky.

"Should the Vikings regret cutting Xavier Scott?"

Hmm.

That obviously is considering where they are now in the run game, whereas we've talked about Aaron Jones had to do pretty much all the work last week.

Um, and DJ Dallas, they like, but he's a special teams guy.

He is a protection guy third down.

Um, should they regret cutting Xavier Scott?

I think they could use him.

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Uh, Aaron, it doesn't look good, uh, on Xavier Scott's part now that... [laughs] Oh, yeah, I know, I know.

Xavier Scott signing with the, uh, Chicago Bears.

But, you know, Kyle Manungai is banged up, so he might end up active there anyway.

Like, running backs do get hurt a lot.

But I will say, I wonder if this is one of those games, it's a divisional opponent, and you're like, you know what? I know it's just week two, but maybe we just ride Aaron Jones a little bit more than we probably would in other games and just kind of see where they go.

You know what would be great? Is if they had a Xavier Scott.

Wouldn't that be something? Hey,

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So we'll see what the plan is.

And last year when they had injuries, they tapped Xavier Scott and some other names that people don't know at running back.

And that might be what has to happen here with practice squad elevations and having to give 10-plus carries to a guy that you've never heard of.

So we've seen that before in Cam Akers, and they've had success.

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He says, I think the only real fumble made by the Vikings cutting down to 53 was allowing Xavier Scott to walk to dub airs in favor of keeping Claiborne.

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

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

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

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

because of the lack of, right, the lack of running back depth that the Vikings have.

And he got to see that close up.