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Vikings UFA Profile: OL Austin Schlottmann

Schlottmann has been called upon for starts in each of the last two seasons.
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Vikings UFA Profile: OL Austin Schlottmann
Vikings UFA Profile: OL Austin Schlottmann

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With the 2023 season in the books, Inside the Vikings will be taking a look at all 22 of Minnesota's pending unrestricted free agents over the next couple weeks. We'll examine their past and speculate about their future, particularly the likelihood that they could be re-signed by the Vikings this offseason. We'll start from the least important (Hakeem Adeniji) and work our way up to the big fish (Kirk Cousins).

Vikings UFA profile: Austin Schlottmann

  • Age: 28
  • 2023 stats: 3 starts, 62.6 PFF grade
  • 2023 contract AAV: $1.13 million

Signed to one-year deals in each of the last two offseasons, Austin Schlottmann is a backup center who has been called upon for seven total starts since joining the Vikings in 2022. He filled in for an injured Garrett Bradbury in December '22, before suffering an injury of his own just a few snaps into a Week 17 loss in Green Bay. Schlottmann then re-signed with the Vikings, stepped in again for an injured Bradbury early in the season opener, and started the next three games in his absence.

He was far better this season than he had been the year before, earning a strong 72.3 pass blocking grade while cutting his total pressures allowed in half on nearly an identical snap count. Schlottmann also has some valuable versatility, having played both guard positions during his time with the Broncos. He seems like the kind of player the Vikings may once again look to bring back on a cheap one-year deal for depth reasons.

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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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