{"id":781447,"date":"2026-07-05T08:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781447\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T08:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:37:15","slug":"nfl-analyst-shines-light-on-underrated-aspect-of-minnesota-vikings-roster-that-shouldnt-be-overlooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781447\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL analyst shines light on underrated aspect of Minnesota Vikings roster that shouldn\u2019t be overlooked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> There were a lot of things that didn\u2019t go great during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/players\/kwesi_adofo_mensah\/909471\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kwesi Adofo-Mensah<\/a>\u2019s tenure, but his staff did a good job identifying talent. <\/p>\n<p>When you build out a roster, there are multiple avenues to get talent. <\/p>\n<p>Most will prioritize finding it in the NFL Draft, and it\u2019s the smartest strategy. However, you need to attack other areas to craft a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OYOKQfwweSI?si=Yqv289f3ZNsgXonj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super Bowl roster<\/a>. Free agency is a key element to building it out, but an underrated aspect is finding undrafted free agents. Superstars may get you to the Super Bowl, but the game is often defined by the successes and failures of the back end of the roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were a lot of things that didn\u2019t go great during Kwesi Adofo-Mensah\u2019s tenure, but his staff did&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-781447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}