The most important objective for any preseason game is to minimize injury. The Vikings emerged from Saturday’s exhibition opener with two of them.
Receiver Rondale Moore has a “pretty significant” knee injury. After the game, coach Kevin O’Connell added that center Zeke Correll suffered a broken ankle in the fourth quarter.
Undrafted in 2025 from Notre Dame (and before that N.C. State), Correll is listed on the third string, behind Ryan Kelly and Michael Jurgens, a seventh-round pick in 2024.
With two more preseason games to play, the Vikings will need someone to take the game reps at center. It could be a free agent, or it could be another interior offensive lineman who slides over to the middle.