Minnesota Vikings Training Camp Schedule

The Minnesota Vikings announced their training camp schedule this week. This is the 51st consecutive year that Vikings have held training camp in Mankato, MN on the campus of Minnesota State University, Mankato. They are one of the few NFL teams that still hold camp away from home. This training camp will be a little different in that they will hold two joint practices with the Cincinnati Bengals. This seems like a natural pairing due to Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer's defensive coordinator days in Cincinnati and his close relationship with Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis. Perhaps that coaching and personal relationship will help keep the tensions between players of each team at a manageable level. Too often joint practices such as this erupt into fisticuffs. The Vikings-Bengals practices are in advance of the Vikings-Bengals preseason opener on Friday, August 12 at Paul Brown Stadium.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS 2016 TRAINING CAMP PRACTICE SCHEDULE

Thursday, July 28

10:00 am - 2:00 pm Check-In

Approx. 12:00 pm in front of Sears 

Friday, July 29

10:30 - 11:30 am (Walk-Thru)

2:45 - 5:00 pm (Practice)

Saturday, July 30

10:30 - 11:30 am (Walk-Thru)

2:45 - 5:00 pm (Practice)

Sunday, July 31

10:30 - 11:30 am (Walk-Thru)

2:45 - 5:00 pm (Practice)

Monday, August 1

10:30 - 11:30 am (Walk-Thru)

2:45 - 5:00 pm (Practice)

Tuesday, August 2

Players Day Off

Wednesday, August 3

10:30 - 11:30 am (Walk-Thru)

2:45 - 5:00 pm (Practice)

Thursday, August 4

10:30 - 11:30 am (Walk-Thru)

2:45 - 5:00 pm (Practice)

Friday, August 5

10:30 - 11:30 am (Walk-Thru)

2:45 - 5:00 pm (Practice)

Saturday, August 6

10:30 - 11:30 am (Walk-Thru)

7:15 - 9:15 pm - (Blakeslee)

Sunday, August 7

Players Day Off

Monday, August 8

10:30 - 11:30 am (Walk-Thru)

2:45 - 5:00 pm (Practice)

Tuesday, August 9

8:00 - 10:00 am (Practice)

Wednesday, August 10

2:00 pm (CT) Practice in Cincinnati with Bengals (TBD)

Thursday, August 11

10:00 am (CT) Practice in Cincinnati with Bengals (TBD)

Friday, August 12

6:30 pm (CT) Vikings at Bengals

Saturday, August 13

Players Day Off

Sunday, August 14

Practice at Winter Park Facility

The Vikings will only hold nine days of practices in Mankato. The relatively low number of practice days is due mostly to the two days in Cincinnati as well as the need to get out of the Mankato St. dorms to make room for the students arriving for the new term.

Football is creeping closer.