Vikings vs. Broncos highlights Preseason Week 3
Highlights from the preseason Week 3 matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and the Denver Broncos during the 2026 NFL season.
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In the fullback spot, Marvin Mims Jr. Is in there.
Slot to the left.
Stidham throwing, waiting for Prentice to come across.
Rather, Atkins, I beg your pardon.
That's what Jarrett Stidham, changing the play, and then after he delivers the football, look on the right side of your screen.
Troy Franklin is throwing a block so good that he had to get out of the way.
Looking, asking questions, how you're doing.
Snap is good, hold is fine, and Lutz splits the uprights.
One of Ryan's players to watch in early here tonight.
Yeah, he's earned it.
They fake it to Schrader, pressure up the middle.
Hit Schrader out of the backfield, makes a man miss.
40, and he's up-ended out to the 48-yard line.
Sold it too with his shoulders coming down to pull those linebackers up.
He doesn't get tackled by one guy and then tries his best to jump- Second down and 10, just shy of midfield.
Stidham fakes, releases, throws to Schrader.
He'll make some more people miss.
Just inside the one.
Give it to the first man through.
It's Adam Prentice.
Prentice and Atkins having a quarter.
For extra points and field goals, snap is good, hold is fine, and Reichard from 46 is good.
Coaching staff done an amazing job teaching these guys the full responsibilities of a receiver.
They're executing it on the field, so that means they're teaching it well, and the guys are paying attention.
And you do need different looks.
Look out, Kobie Kaecus, who has flashed this preseason.
Look how fired up he is.
What a moment.
Second 40-plus yard return for Kaecus.
Schrader rips off a chunk.
Get it away.
Ellinger, right sideline.
What a throw.
Gorgeous pass, Dame Key.
And Key tried to stay on his feet, had one more man to beat.
That's like at the body shot- Yep the head will follow.
Yep, Matt Peart right there.
He's gonna get the coaching point tomorrow.
Second and 10, McLaughlin breaking away from people.
Jaleel McLaughlin from Sam Ellinger.
20-yard touchdown for the Broncos.
I mean, catching it on what they call an angle route, runs about a 60-degree angle there, Steve, and then keeps the speed, and you see him break the ticker tape at the end.
That's the joy, Steve.
You need to know that these players, there's so much pressure, you think- Broncos defense trying to get off the field.
Here's Brosmer.
Airs one out, right sideline.
Beautiful ball.
It's juggled, and let's see.
They're gonna call it a catch.
I'm suspect on his left foot again.
Oh, he made it.
Come on, Steve.
I don't know.
Let's see.
He didn't- One he didn't bobble.
Oh.
Oh.
I think that's an incomplete pass.
Yeah.
That's two for two now, Steve.
That, Bears not ready to overtake them.
Here's Ellinger.
Dumps it off to Schrader.
Oh.
Schrader making people miss across midfield.
Cody Schrader.
Newcomer Foster Sorrell is in there, number 70 in the white at the left tackle spot.
Ellinger in some trouble.
Rolling to his right, and he'll sail one to the end zone.
Wide open.
It's caught.
Who else but Cody Schrader?
And the Broncos sideline explodes.
And here Ellinger creating space, and then throwing a rainbow across the body to Schrader.
Wow.
There's not a purple jersey in the screen.
Whoo.
He bounced back nicely.
And he, he can hang his hat on his performance and feel good no matter what happens tomorrow morning.
Jefferson running away from people.
National Vikings picks up 28 yards there.
And they caught the Broncos in a blitz.
Just happened to be blitzing from right to left.
They're going left to right, and they broke it open there.
Jefferson, not as fast as J- Justin Jefferson, but finding some open spacing, getting a big gain.
But it's why you invest in a backup quarterback and- Yep second-string players and team depth.
Here's Ellinger doing a little dance now.
Loads up, fires middle to field, wide open at the 50-yard line.
Justin Jeanty running away from everybody.
How about 88 yards to the house.
88 yards with 8:08 to play.
Poor Tavis, he must get that every single day.
Vikings keep it on the ground with Jamar Jefferson, and they'll push the pile right to the Broncos logo.
Real estate guy and best spotter in the world.
Official scorekeeper of the New York Knicks, the NBA world champions.
And a professor at Brooklyn Law School.
Out of the two-minute warning.
Max Brosmer throws underneath to Marshall Wang, the tight end.
Falls out.
And the football comes out.
Absolutely rocked.
I love this play.
It's called wide tight end left, and then at the end there, his head hits Scott right on the shoulder pad.
Nothing Scott can do about it.
But Bartholomew in pain.
Ouch.
