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HC Leslie Frazier reported Sunday that although Ponder was able to finish the regular-season finale against the Packers, when the quarterback came into Winter Park last Monday, his biceps muscle was swollen and discolored and he had hardly any range of motion.
Reported by the Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Frazier said the condition of Ponder's injury -- which kept the quarterback out of Saturday's 24-10 playoff loss at Green Bay after he started every game for the Vikings this season -- got better as the week went on, but not to the point where he could go out and throw a ball in an NFL game. "We had an idea, just watching him and seeing his progress, and we were all hoping that at least by Friday or Saturday it would loosen up a little bit more, but it really didn't happen," Frazier said. If you'd like an idea of just what Ponder was dealing with, Star-Tribune staffer Dan Wiederer
offered up photographic evidence after the fact. ... Meanwhile, Joe Webb struggled (to put it mildly) in relief of Ponders, perhaps securing the latter's status as QB of the future for Minnesota.
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