Offseason Filler Fun - Add Former Legend to 2023 Roster

With the 2023 NFL Draft and the bulk of free agency in the books, the team-building portion of the offseason is mostly complete, but some squads still have glaring weaknesses. Others would simply enjoy one of their best-ever players upgrading a spot on the team.

Here were the loose rules:

You were adding a theoretical version of the great player in his prime.

Early-era players were presumed to be transported into the modern era, complete with the benefit of nutrition, strength and conditioning training and so on (i.e., remain great in 2023).

The player couldn’t still be active. For example, Green Bay couldn’t simply re-add Aaron Rodgers.

The player had to have played the majority — or at least a recognizable portion — of his career for the relevant team. For example, Reggie White is eligible for both the Packers and Eagles, not the Panthers.

I generally tried to stay away from players who retired very recently. The Patriots weren’t getting Tom Brady back, and the Saints weren't adding Drew Brees.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS: QB DAUNTE CULPEPPER

The Vikings are swimming with elite choices to add to the current roster. Randy Moss? Carl Eller? Alan Page? John Randle? Chris Doleman? Throw a dart at the team’s Ring of Honor, and you’d likely select an outstanding addition. But with the team having finally put an end date on the Kirk Cousins era, they need a new quarterback.

Daunte Culpepper would be even better in 2023 than he was during his time, as the league knows how to maximize his athletic gifts better than it did when he was playing. Culpepper was a 260-pound quarterback who could run over linebackers in the open field, but employing a quarterback as a major part of the designed run game wasn’t the done thing in the early 2000s. Despite that, he rushed for more than 600 yards and 10 touchdowns in one year. In today’s NFL, he would be lethal, even without Moss on the other end of his deep ball.