Blair Walsh News

With the end of the Minnesota Vikings' OTAs, and June's mandatory minicamp coming up, there are still plenty of positional battles to be waged and starters to be named.

The Minnesota Vikings made a notable change at kicker prior to the 2012 season, releasing veteran Ryan Longwell and going with sixth-round pick Blair Walsh in his place.

In 2011, Ryan Longwell was the Vikings' kicker and Chris Kluwe was their punter.

Once again, Vikings .com had the only coverage of the third day of OTAs this week.

Fantasy football is starting up, and there's only one thing that will separate you from the championship in your league.

With offseason training activities in full bore, the Minnesota Vikings brass - and many of the fans - will get their first look at how their newly acquired rookies will perform against top-tier NFL talent.

See this link http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1654606-minnesota-vikings-2013-preview-playoff-contender-or-pretender Overall I'm pretty excited about the upcoming season and believe the Vikings have done enough to take the division this year.

Ask yourself the following: which current player warrants a consideration as the Vikings ' greatest player throughout history at his position... Or even as the all-time greatest throughout the league's history? In Peterson's case, the question is not even worth to be up to discussion after last year's MVP ... (more)

We talked earlier about how Jared Allen didn't really want to take a pay cut for this coming season with the Minnesota Vikings .

In 2010, the Minnesota Vikings , as a celebration of their 50 years as a franchise, named their 50 greatest players up to that point.

Ben Goessling of the "Vikings Now" blog over at the St. Paul Pioneer Press has a really interesting profile up of new Minnesota Vikings punter Jeff Locke .

Our friends over at Football Outsiders have released their " Aggressiveness Index " for the 2012 NFL season, and it turns out that Minnesota Vikings head coach Leslie Frazier is one of the least aggressive coaches in the league when it comes to going for it on fourth down.