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Colts Loss at Left Tackle Could Hurt Worse Than Minnesota Vikings’.
Last week, the Minnesota Vikings suffered one of the worst injury losses possible, entering the season. Christian Darrisaw has quickly become the shut down left tackle that this franchise has been desperate for since Bryant McKinnie left for Baltimore after the 2010 season.
They tried to replace him with a top-5 draft pick in Matt Kalil (2012), just to find out he was softer mentally than the poop in your backyard when the dog eats something it shouldn’t have. Riley Reiff was okay, but not a long-term answer.
But the last two seasons, Darrisaw has developed into one of the best offensive tackles in football, and a guy who the Minnesota Vikings expect to protect JJ McCarthy’s blindside for the next decade. How good is Christian
Darrisaw?
Minnesota Vikings will desperately miss Christian Darrisaw
We’ll talk PFF scores momentarily. But this one highlight, from a couple of weeks ago vs the Lions, tells you everything you need to know about how good Darrisaw really is. Watch him push the EDGE directly into Blake Brandel before spinning to his right where he met a shocked interior lineman who thought he had an open lane to Sam Darnold.
When Christian Darrisaw’s season ended, he had an 81.4 overall PFF grade. He excels in both run blocking and pass protection. There’s really nothing the 25-year-old out of Virginia Tech can’t do. Had he continued his dominance for the entire season, Darrisaw would have been in the running for 1st team All Pro.
Cam Robinson was a big get, especially since the Jacksonville Jaguars were so willing to get rid of the 29-year-old veteran that they paid the Vikings to take him. But nobody is going to mistake him for Christian Darrisaw, over the next 9 weeks of football.
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Instead, the Minnesota Vikings will play the rest of the 2024 season without their franchise left tackle. But they aren’t the only team playing on Sunday Night Football without their starter at that position. Like the Vikings, the Indianapolis Colts released their final injury report of week 9 on Friday afternoon, and their left tackle Bernhard Raimann was listed as “OUT”.
