ossibility" />Skip to main contentclockmenumore-arrownoyesHorizontal - WhiteDaily Norsemana Minnesota Vikings communityLog In or Sign UpLog InSign UpFanpostsFanshotsSectionsLibraryVikingsOddsShopAboutMastheadCommunity GuidelinesStubHubMoreAll 322 blogs on Horizontal - WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Vikings 2018 SeasonVikings 2019 OffseasonU.S. Bank StadiumMinnesota Vikings PodcastsFiled under:Minnesota Vikings 2019 OffseasonMinnesota Vikings OTAs: Is it possible Mike Hughes won’t be ready for Week 1?New Alexander Mattison Minnesota Vikings Jerseys ,76commentsAt least one well-placed source is raising that possibilityCDTShareTweetShareShareMinnesota Vikings OTAs: Is it possible Mike Hughes won’t be ready for Week 1?Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty ImagesA promising rookie season for Minnesota Vikings’ cornerback Mike Hughes was cut short in the team’s Week 6 victory over the Arizona Cardinals by a torn ACL. Now, just a few weeks after we got word that Hughes was, apparently, ahead of schedule in his rehab, a well-placed Vikings’ source is raising the spectre that Hughes might not be ready for the 2019 regular season opener.During his radio show on KFAN, Vikings play-by-play announcer Paul Allen said that he would bet on Hughes not being active when the Vikings host the Atlanta Falcons to kick off the 2019 NFL season.This could present pretty significant issues for the Vikings as they prepare to face Julio Jones and company. The team will already be without Holton Hill at cornerback, as he’ll be serving the first game of his four-game suspension for violating the league’s policy against performance enhancing substances. No Hughes and no Hill would leave a lot of work for Xavier Rhodes Minnesota Vikings Jerseys 2019 , Trae Waynes, and Mackensie Alexander. . .plus whoever would be behind them of any of them were to suffer some sort of injury.Obviously, there’s still plenty of time to go and plenty of rehab work to be done before we know whether or not Hughes will be ready to go for the opener. However, the 2019 regular season opener comes about ten and a half months after Hughes suffered his injury, and that time frame might put him a little short of a full recovery.At this point, it will be interesting to see if Hughes starts Training Camp on the Physically Unable to Perform List and whether or not he remains there into the regular season. If that were to happen, Hughes would be forced to miss the team’s first six games Alexander Mattison Jersey nfl draft , per NFL rules. Vikings coach Mike Zimmer probably would use a slightly stronger term than “poopfest” when talking about Thursday Night Football. Possibly a word ending in “-show.”Zimmer doesn’t like the fact that his team has to travel from Minnesota to Los Angeles for a short-week game against the Rams. He said Wednesday that it’s “too far to go for a game during a short week.”The Vikings traveled on Tuesday, in order to better acclimate to L.A. before the Thursday game.e go out and play the schedule however they do it. I know the statistics about going to the West Coast on a short week and all of that. Part of the reason we are going out [Tuesday], we did a study on preparing for a game on a short week, all of those things.”Zimmer added that, in his five seasons with the Vikings, they’ve never had a short-week home game. (In 2016 Alexander Mattison Jersey Cheap , a Thursday night game at home against the Cowboys came a week after a short-week Thanksgiving Day game at Detroit.) Making the travel burden on the Vikings more conspicuous is the fact that the Rams played at home on Sunday before playing at home again on Thursday.In situations like this, where one team has to cross a pair of time zones for a short-week game, the home team should start the week by traveling home through a pair of time zones. This would at least balance out the infringement on the total preparation time, forcing both teams to include the hassle of travel within the scant hours they have to prepare for the game.