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Holton Hill Eligible to Return For Vikings This Week

The Vikings secondary gets a key player back for the second half of the season.
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Holton Hill Eligible to Return For Vikings This Week
Holton Hill Eligible to Return For Vikings This Week

Second-year cornerback Holton Hill has been reinstated for the Vikings, the NFL announced today. Hill just finished serving two separate four-game suspensions for violating league policies, one for performance-enhancing substances and one for substances of abuse.

He will be available for next Sunday's game against the Kansas City Chiefs.

An undrafted corner out of Texas last season, Hill turned into a valuable member of the Vikings secondary as a rookie. He played all 16 games, recording 36 tackles, 7 pass breakups and an interception.

The Vikings were granted a roster exemption for Hill this week, meaning they don't need to immediately take someone off of the 53-man roster. The exemption reportedly expires on Nov. 4, which is the Monday following the upcoming game in Kansas City.

Hill joins a cornerback group that includes Xavier Rhodes, Trae Waynes, Mike Hughes, Mackensie Alexander, and fellow Longhorn Kris Boyd. Mark Fields and Nate Meadors on the practice squad.

Even though the Vikings are deep at corner, Hill will have a good chance to see playing time pretty quickly. Rhodes has been struggling with injuries and poor performance, never more so than in Thursday night's game against the Redskins. Waynes has also had occasional struggles. Hill is more of an outside corner, like those two, whereas Hughes and Alexander are the Vikings' primary slot corners.

The Vikings are 6-2 and have won four in a row as they head to Kansas City next weekend. Patrick Mahomes' status for that game is unclear, but it seems like he may have a chance to play.

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Will Ragatz
WILL RAGATZ

Will Ragatz is a senior writer for Vikings On SI, who also covers the Twins, Timberwolves, Gophers, and other Minnesota teams. He is a credentialed Minnesota Vikings beat reporter, covering the team extensively at practices, games and throughout the NFL draft and free agency period. Ragatz attended Northwestern University, where he studied at the prestigious Medill School of Journalism. During his time as a student, he covered Northwestern Wildcats football and basketball for SB Nation’s Inside NU, eventually serving as co-editor-in-chief in his junior year. In the fall of 2018, Will interned in Sports Illustrated’s newsroom in New York City, where he wrote articles on Major League Baseball, college football, and college basketball for SI.com.

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