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Defensive Player Profile of the Week: Antoine Winfield

Posted by The Jazzy One

August 28, 2008 |

Let’s look at another defensive player this week.  (I do the offensive players of the week for The Viking Ship at http://vikings.sportsbloggingnetwork.com)

Vikings fans, meet Antoine Winfield.

Antoine Winfield is a starting cornerback for the Minnesota Vikings, and has been with them since 2004.

Winfield played in college at Ohio State Unniversity, where in 1998 he won the Jim Thorpe Award.  He was drafted in the first round of the 1999 draft by the Buffalo Bills, where he played the first 5 years of his career.

His first career interception was on September 2nd, 1999 against non other than Peyton Manning.

He had a solid career in Buffalo until the Vikings signed him as a free agent in 2004.  Since joining the Vikings, he has become a leader on the defensive team.   Due to his aggressive play and fierce hitting ability, he is credited as one of the reasons that the Vikings defense has seemed to raise their energy level over the past several years.  In his first season with the Vikings, he was named as the Wildcard Player of the Week, and he led the team with 22 post-season tackles.

Winfield has been vocal over the past couple of years with his criticisms of the Vikings head office for not doing what he feels needed to be done to improve the team.  However, he was also quick to praise the head office when he felt that they stepped up and started spending the money necessary to improve the team.


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