Matt Birk

The Sunday Star Tribune is reporting that he might not play in the season opener. This should be cause for concern. The Running Game went in the tank without Birk last year look at their running stats once he got dinged after the Indy game. Corey Withrow is OK against the pass, but can't get create any sort of running lanes like Matt Birk did for Onterrio Smith on his 4th quarter touchdown versus the Colts, last year. We shall see with this story. In other news, the same article reports T.Will will get some First-Team action this week in practice..