Alexander Mattison spent his first four training camps as a Minnesota Viking knowing he would be a backup. Or at least that’s how it seemed. Starter Dalvin Cook, however, told Mattison not to think of it in those terms.
“I’ve been preparing like a starter, preparing that way since I got here,” Mattison said. “A lot of that credit goes to Dalvin telling me that, ‘You’re not a backup. You’re just in a situation where there are two starting running backs in the same backfield.'”
