6 first-year Vikings who could be gone in 2023

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - DECEMBER 24: Duke Shelley #20 of the Minnesota Vikings on field between plays in the second quarter of the game against the New York Giants at U.S. Bank Stadium on December 24, 2022 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
MINNEAPOLIS, MN - DECEMBER 24: Duke Shelley #20 of the Minnesota Vikings on field between plays in the second quarter of the game against the New York Giants at U.S. Bank Stadium on December 24, 2022 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
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A few players who spent their first year with the Minnesota Vikings during the 2022 NFL season might not return to the squad for the upcoming season.

Changes will come to the Minnesota Vikings this offseason and not all of them will be easy decisions. Several of those decisions will involve the personnel that takes the field during the 2023 season.

New additions made to the roster in 2022 are not guaranteed to stick around, so don’t be surprised if some of those players end up on the team’s chopping block at some point this offseason.

In fact. some players might not fit the scheme or be better than the other new arrivals to the team’s roster this offseason, making them expendable even if they are talented and contributed in the past.

Let’s take a look at six players who spent their first season with the Minnesota Vikings in 2022 and have a solid chance of wearing another team’s uniform for the 2023 NFL season or not making a 53-man roster during the upcoming season.

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