Nick Easton for Andrus Peat

Peat won’t be returning in 2020. No, that isn’t confirmed yet, but we’ve got a hunch. When he wasn’t injured, Peat was a liability in both pass protection and run blocking last year. No player is perfect, and they all have weaknesses; it’s understandable if a guard struggles in one area or the other. But you can’t be bad at both, and Peat struggled in most of his assignments last season. Therefore, the guard position will need to be addressed.

Easton spent most of the 2019 season as a highly-paid benchwarmer, sitting out the first few months, and had an almost-identical Pro Football Focus grade to Peat at 47.7. While Easton is currently the clear-cut internal option to replace Peat as an experienced former starter with the Minnesota Vikings, he could just as easily become a salary cap casualty. If that were the case, third-year pro Will Clapp would be another leading candidate to help fill Peat’s current role.

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