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Report: Vikings RB Dalvin Cook to miss Week 17 vs Lions due to family emergency

ESPN’s Courtney Cronin is reporting that Minnesota Vikings starting RB Dalvin Cook will miss Week 17 versus the Detroit Lions due to a family emergency.

ESPN’s Courtney Cronin is reporting that Minnesota Vikings starting RB Dalvin Cook will miss Week 17 versus the Detroit Lions due to a family emergency.

NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero is reporting the family emergency was the unexpected passing of his father, James on Tuesday, and Cook has returned home to Miami, Florida to be with his younger siblings.

With Cook’s season now over, he will end his career year with 1,557 rushing yards, 16 rushing touchdowns, 44 receptions, 361 receiving yards, and a receiving touchdown.

The last time Vikings met the Lions, Cook ran for 206 yards and 2 touchdowns (as well as two receptions for 46 yards), and a repeat performance would have put his name in the Vikings’ record books. Cook was 203 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns away from matching Adrian Peterson’s single-season team records.

Of note for the game, Cooks’s backup Alexander Mattison is currently in concussion protocols and missed Week 16. If he is also not able to play, the Vikings will likely turn to former Lions running back Ameer Abdullah. Minnesota’s Week 17 injury report will be due out Wednesday afternoon, and Mattison’s status will be updated then.

We at Lions Wire wish to offer our condolences to Cook and his family during this difficult time.

Notre Dame Football: Ole Miss Coaching Search Includes Irish Assistant

a Notre Dame assistant has now been linked to an SEC opening.
And it’s not Clark Lea.

We’ve been on the lookout for star Notre Dame defensive coordinator Clark Lea as coaching changes have been happening all around college football. The former Vanderbilt fullback won’t return to his alma mater since the Commodores didn’t make a coaching change but a Notre Dame assistant has now been linked to an SEC opening.

And it’s not Clark Lea.

247Sports is reporting that as of Tuesday night that Notre Dame offensive coordinator Chip Long has emerged as a candidate to fill the Ole Miss head coaching vacancy.

Long has been at Notre Dame since 2017 when he took over as offensive coordinator.

Long began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Louisville in 2007 before stays in various positions at Arkansas, Illinois, Arizona State and Memphis.

Long went to Memphis with Mike Norvell in 2016 and spent one season there before headed to South Bend to call Notre Dame’s offense which he has had great success with, helping guide the Irish to now three-straight 10-win seasons.

My initial thought is that yeah, you hate to break-up something that is working but in all honesty – what is Notre Dame’s offensive identity this year?

There is something to be said with being able to get by somewhat on the fly, but it’s hardly a unit that dominates in any one capacity.

My initial thoughts upon reading this are more “Thank goodness it’s not Lea” than it is “Don’t leave, Chip!”