Christian Ponder News

With the Minnesota Vikings in the midst of their organized team activities at the team's Winter Park headquarters in Eden Prairie, there is an air of hope for an increase in wins for 2012, as the excitement for the upcoming season is already at a very high level.

When it came time for the Bengals to decide whether or not they were going to re-sign wide receiver Jerome Simpson , opinions were mixed on the matter.

Brett Favre had finally, really, seriously thrown his last pass by the time Minnesota drafted Christian Ponder 12th overall in the 2011 NFL Draft, and it was actually an aging Donovan McNabb whom Ponder sat behind until he was handed the keys to the franchise on Oct.

Ian Rapoport of Rap Sheet fame was there too and he couldn't believe it either .

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Toward the end of an 11-on-11 drill Wednesday, Christian Ponder threw a pass that no NFL quarterback should make.

After a dismal 2011-12 campaign. The Minnesota Vikings have plenty of questions to answer heading into the upcoming season.

Minnesota Vikings' Percy Harvin during the first quarter of the Minnesota Vikings game against the Denver Broncos on December 4, 2011 at the Metrodome in Minneapolis.

As I mentioned earlier, today is the first day of Organized Team Activities for the Minnesota Vikings , and though the media was not officially allowed at today's practices, we do have a couple of pieces of information for you.

Harvin still not doing drills : The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that Vikings receiver Percy Harvin is attending this week's organized team activities but is not participating in drills yet because of last month's shoulder surgery to clean out bone spurs.

The Vikings went into the offseason knowing that they needed more pieces on offense to help Christian Ponder in 2012.

Chris Johnson and Adrian Peterson both underperformed in the NFL 's 2011 season.

Going into the 2011 NFL Draft, Auburn's Nick Fairley had a reputation for dirty play, having picked up numerous unnecessary personal foul penalties in college.

One of the things that we're banking on as fans of the Minnesota Vikings is that quarterback Christian Ponder is going to be markedly better in 2012 than he was in 2011, and it really does make sense to think that he will be.

It is no secret that Vikings fans need to have tempered expectations about their position in the NFC North this year.

Yes, the start of training camps is two months away, but it's never too early to consider the coming season.

We're at the last of our look at the potential breakout players in the NFC North, arriving last - but not least - at the Minnesota Vikings .

A couple of weeks ago, we gave you the lines that have already been established for the first 16 weeks of the 2012 NFL season.

I saw Greg Childs ' name appear on the screen on the final day of the draft last month, and my mind immediately wandered back to last year's game at Atlanta.

They struggled to get open all year and provided small passing windows. The lone bright spot was Percy Harvin who solidified himself as an upper echelon talent.

Here's a Vikings trivia question to try out on friends: Which position has players with the shortest and longest names on the team? It's the quarterback position, and neither Christian Ponder nor Sage Rosenfels are part of the answer.