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Pro Football Focus suggests free-agent signing for Vikings
The start of the new league year is still a couple of months away, but NFL pundits are looking ahead at free agency and which players could suit up for new teams in 2021.
PFF's Sam Monson opined one free agent that each team should pursue this spring, noting that they might not all be "marquee names" but that he focused on best fit per situation. For the Vikings, he pointed to Shelby Harris, who played defensive end in Denver's 3-4 scheme.
Originally a seventh-round draft pick by the Raiders in 2014, Harris spent two seasons in Oakland before joining the Broncos, with whom he's played the past four seasons. Over the past two years, Harris has started all 27 games he's played for Denver. Monson wrote:
The Minnesota Vikings defensive line this season was one of the worst the league has seen in a number of years. The unit lost Michael Pierce before the season to a COVID-19 opt-out and missed out on Danielle Hunter due to an injury. Even before those losses, though, the team was struggling on the defensive line.
The Vikings don't have much salary cap space to play with, so an under-the-radar player like Shelby Harris might make a lot of sense. Harris has an overall PFF grade of at least 76.0 in each of the past four seasons and can cause problems against the run and pass. This season, he had 27 total pressures and 19 defensive stops on only 441 snaps.
As for Minnesota's NFC North rivals? Monson suggested that Green Bay attempt to sign dominant linebacker K.J. Wright, a 2011 fourth-round pick who's spent his entire career thus far in Seattle.
He tabbed wide receivers for Chicago and Detroit, saying the Lions should add current Bears receiver Allen Robinson II. If Robinson does opt to leave the Windy City, Monson said, the Bears could target JuJu Smith-Schuster.