{"id":44557,"date":"2025-07-29T07:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44557\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T07:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:30:10","slug":"dallas-turner-shines-as-pads-come-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44557\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Turner shines as pads come on"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although the endless hype and discussion around J.J. McCarthy is understandable, we shouldn’t be overlooking the Vikings’ other 2024 first-round pick. Dallas Turner, last year’s No. 17 overall selection, showed up to Minnesota’s offseason program earlier this year in phenomenal shape and really turned heads with his play during minicamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All he’s done over the first week of training camp is continue that momentum. Turner was one of the main standouts of Monday’s practice, which was the first of camp with the players in full pads. He broke out a spin move to beat his opponent in 1-on-1 drills. He had a rep on a run play in 11-on-11 that was so physical that the backup tackle blocking him wound up in the backfield without a helmet. One play later, Turner burst around that player for a would-be sack. Facing the first-team offense later in practice, Turner made an athletic, Andrew Van Ginkel-esque play to break up a screen pass.<\/p>\n

All of the signs point to a big second season for Turner, who showed flashes as a rookie but had a limited role as the No. 4 player on the outside linebacker depth chart. He’s now the clear No. 3 in that room, but the Vikings look at it as having “three starters” with Turner alongside Jonathan Greenard and Van Ginkel. They’ll rotate those three to keep them fresh and will also have plenty of personnel groupings with all three on the field, especially because Turner and Van Ginkel can both line up at off-ball linebacker as needed. Turner has said he spent a lot of time working out with \u2014 and learning from \u2014 Greenard after last season ended, which is encouraging.<\/p>\n

Here’s what else stood out at practice on Monday:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although the endless hype and discussion around J.J. McCarthy is understandable, we shouldn’t be overlooking the Vikings’ other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-44557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}