As the Minnesota Vikings near the start of their training camp, the defense will be a highly-contested unit.
Between multiple new additions — including free agents Marcus Davenport and Byron Murphy, Jr. — draft picks, and players returning from injury, defensive coordinator Brian Flores will have a lot of uncertainty to work through.
As a result, predicting the team’s starting defense before the start of camp is, well, challenging.
Still, predicting it allows there to be a discussion around multiple players. There’s no knowing which two linebackers start in Flores’ 3-4 base defense, but there’s an opportunity to offer educated guesses.
As a result, we’ll take an opportunity to project who will start for the Vikings in their base defense.