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Mark Craig

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Mark Craig covers the Minnesota Vikings and the NFL for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. He is a Pro Football Hall of Fame selector.

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  • 3 days ago | startribune.com | Mark Craig

    Tre Stewart was 6 years old when he scored the first of what he has ballparked at "more than 200" touchdowns in a 16-year, under-the-radar career that has led him from the dusty Pop Warner fields of Winston-Salem, N.C., to the pristine palace that is the Vikings' TCO Performance Center. "I was a chubby 6-year-old," said the undrafted rookie listed at 5-8, 186. "They had me playing D-tackle." Stewart asked to play running back, too.

  • 2 weeks ago | startribune.com | Mark Craig

    1. Day 1 winner: Browns It takes three to four years to accurately assess an NFL team's draft performance. But who the heck has time to be right in today's sports journalism? So, without further adieu, these analytical eyeballs needed about four hours to crown the Cleveland Browns as the biggest winner on Day 1 of the NFL draft. And, yes, people have said those words before only to be proven woefully wrong inside of five years. But ...

  • 3 weeks ago | startribune.com | Mark Craig

    Mark Craig has covered the NFL nearly every year since Brett Favre was a rookie back in 1991. A sports writer since 1987, he is covering his 30th NFL season out of 37 years with the Canton (Ohio) Repository (1987-99) and the Star Tribune (1999-present).

  • 1 month ago | startribune.com | Mark Craig

    Green Bay or Bust! The Star Tribune's Mark Craig is heading to Titletown (sorry, Vikings fans, but that's what they call it) on April 24 for Day 1 of the NFL Draft. He'll be looking for fans of a certain Purple-clad team. He has a few questions for those who will be joining him for that day's events.

  • 1 month ago | bismarcktribune.com | Mark Craig

    In his introductory news conference with Twin Cities media Wednesday, newly-signed Vikings cornerback Isaiah Rodgers shared his experiences with the highs of winning a Super Bowl as a role player with the Eagles last season to the lows of being suspended for the entire 2023 season after being caught violating the NFL’s policy on gambling while with the Colts. “I think the first thing I realized [about 2023] was the league doesn’t need anybody,” he said in a video call.

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