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Everson Griffen‘s absence from Sunday’s game is the defensive end was attending to a
“personal matter.” That left it to reporters to track down the reason Marcus Murphy Jerseys 2019 , and one has.Ryan Raiche of KSTP-TV reports that Griffen was involved in an incident at a Minneapolis hotel Saturday night. The
name of the person verbally threatening to shoot someone was redacted from the
police report, but according to Raiche, it was Griffen. Hotel staff moved into a
back office at one point as Griffen paced around the lobby and threatened to
assault hotel employees if he wasn’t allowed into his room. No gun was seen,
according to police, and Griffen was not arrested.Minneapolis Police Department
spokesman John Elder told Raiche that the man left on his own and the caller no
longer is cooperating.Vikings General Manager Rick Spielman provided a statement
to Raiche, “We are aware of the situation involving Everson Griffen and
certainly concerned by what we have heard. We are currently focused on Everson’s
well-being and providing the appropriate support for him and his family.”Griffen
has a knee injury that kept him from playing against the Bills. Tremaine
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classTwitterFacebookRedditPocketFlipboardEmailIn any other year, Tremaine
Edmunds would’ve most likely been the league’s top rookie linebacker. At just 20
years old, Edmunds was calling and making plays for the NFL’s second-ranked
defense. However, the 2018 NFL Draft produced one of the best rookie linebacker
classes the league has seen in 20 years, with four rookies having standout years
at the position. So the question is, where does Tremaine Edmunds rank among
those four?Coming in at number one is Darius Leonard of the Indianapolis Colts
(pick 36). He was the x-factor of the Colts’ defense and had one of the best
seasons the league has ever seen out of a rookie linebacker. He was a
sideline-to-sideline player who teams had to account for in every facet of the
game—recording 163 tackles Ryan Groy Jerseys 2019 , seven sacks, eight passes defended and forcing seven turnovers. Leonard was named AP Defensive Rookie of the Year and received
All-Pro honors in the process. The second-best rookie linebacker was Leighton
Vander Esch of the Dallas Cowboys (pick 19). Having only started 11 games Vander
Esch finished the season with 140 tackles, seven passes defended and two
interceptions. Vander Esch came up huge in big moments for the Cowboys last year
and was one half of what some consider the best linebacker duo in the league
alongside Jaylon Smith. At number three, beating out Roquan Smith of the Chicago
Bears (pick 8), we have Tremaine Edmunds (pick 16). This ranking says more about
the class of linebackers than it does about Edmunds. The rookie from Virginia
Tech was given a tall order going into 2018 switching positions from outside
linebacker—which he played in college—to inside linebacker and tasked to be the
primary play caller on the Bills’ defense. He was a consistent playmaker for
Buffalo and showed everyone why they moved up in the draft to select him. A
sideline-to-sideline player as well as being a presence in the pass game, the
rookie proved he can be a problem for teams at the pro level. Out of the four
rookies White Vladimir Ducasse Jerseys , Edmunds is probably the most prototypical linebacker with the highest ceiling, and he may very well have the
best group of players around him. Going into year two it’s expected that, baring
an injury, Edmunds will take that next step into elite territory—something fans
haven’t seen in Buffalo at the position in quite some time.
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