Remembering the Vikings training camp fights of the past

Here are three memorable Vikings training camp fights.

WR Stefon Diggs vs. CB Xavier Rhodes

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In 2018, this Vikings team was a lot different.

Rhodes was coming off a stellar season and was the premier cornerback on the Minnesota defense. Diggs, at the time, was a promising but inexperienced player, coming off a year where he had 849 receiving yards. Diggs was starting to make a name for himself while Rhodes already had.

Diggs and Rhodes got into it in the 2018 training camp, resulting in both getting kicked out of practice for the rest of the day, according to the Pioneer Press.

Fans didn’t have to worry too much about additional problems, though. Both players talked about how it can be like family fighting.

“We go at it, but it’s all love,” Diggs told reporters, via the Pioneer Press. “It’s a family thing here.”

Rhodes had a similar sentiment.

“It was just the competitive nature in us. I didn’t want to lose. He didn’t want to lose. … It’s stuff like that if you have a sibling you grow up with and he does something you don’t like and then something tends to go off,” Rhodes said, via the Pioneer Press.