The Facts:
The usual caveat applies: It's only the offseason. But the reviews in Minnesota so far have been pretty uniform: The quarterback play has been "spotty" in practice for the Minnesota Vikings. "Watching Christian Ponder out there, the footwork didn't look great," Judd Zulgad, of 1500ESPN.com, said Wednesday. "The passes didn't look all that sharp.
Reported by NJ.com
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
As NFL.com's Gregg Rosenthal stressed, it's only June, and Ponder is playing with new set of receivers. Things aren't going to be perfect. But the Vikings are counting on Ponder's stability in Bill Musgrave's offensive system to lead to major growth. That reportedly hasn't shown up yet in the offseason. "You know what's not there? Crispness," Zulgad said. "There's not a sharpness. At times you would expect things to look second nature to Ponder. ... That's not what we're seeing so far, but like I said, it's minicamp." Rosenthal went on to suggest that Zulgad's comments are of greater interest coming the same day ESPN's Adam Schefter wrote that "some believe" Matt Cassel is good enough to challenge for the starting job this year on the Vikings. We'll go ahead and stress one more time: It's June. Add these reports to the baseline of information on Ponder, who has already clearly demonstrated he's not fantasy QB1 material. That he's not progressing at this point, suggests he'll continue to come up short when viewed as a potential QB2 also.
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