Kevin O'Connell on Vikings' Running Back Room

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00:00 >> Coach, how's your running back room heading into next year?

00:02 Feels like last year, Madison, first year taking over for Dallas, that lead.

00:06 Ty Chandler towards the end of last year seemed to really take over.

00:09 I'm curious how you view your running back room heading into this season.

00:12 >> Yeah, I think that the way Ty finished the season was a real positive and

00:16 going year two into year three will be a huge opportunity for

00:20 him to continue his growth.

00:22 Thought Alex did some good things in our system and ran hard, ran physical.

00:26 As you go through the cut up evaluation process after the season,

00:30 you can really kind of gauge things that worked well, things that didn't,

00:34 things you need to improve on, things that I can do better as a coach.

00:38 But then you see some of the individual performances that maybe don't always

00:42 jump out on the stat sheet, but it was a critical play here and there.

00:45 And then we've got some young players in the room as well.

00:48 So it's always a position that I think, whether free agency or the draft,

00:53 you're looking to continue to infuse talent and different skill sets into that room.

00:58 But no, feel good about what those guys were able to do.

01:01 And more importantly, hopefully what we can build on from there,

01:05 specifically with Ty towards the end of the season.

01:07 I thought seeing him really come on there and

01:10 kind of really start to assert himself was a real positive for our team.