In case you haven’t heard, the Vikings have been cursed at the kicker position through the years.
Here we are in March, 2019, and the Vikings don’t have a kicker for the 2019 season.
Earlier this offseason, new special teams coordinator Marwan Maalouf said that all options were on the table on how the Vikings will acquire a kicker.
One option, of course, is through the draft (or undrafted free agents).
Per Andrew Krammer of the Star Tribune, Maalouf interviewed with three kickers at the combine in Indianapolis: LSU’s Cole Tracy, Utah’s Matt Gay and Oklahoma’s Austin Seibert.
These are really the only three kickers with a chance to make the NFL or to be drafted, so this makes sense.
In CBS Sports rankings, Gay is first, followed by Tracy and Seibert.
A look at their stats last season:
Gay: 21-for-26 FGs, 45-for-45 XPs (he was an All-American in 2017, making 30 of 34 field goals)
Tracy: 29-for-33 FGS, 42-for-42 XPs
Seibert: 17-for-19 FGs, 87-for-88 XPs
The Vikings are probably a bit hesitant in drafting a kicker considering how the Daniel Carlson experiment went last season, but it’s not like Dan Bailey was great, either.
We’ll see if the Vikings decide to take a kicker with one of their eight picks in the draft or decide to sign a free agent.
