Vikings sign Winona State OT Urban
Posted on May 4th, 2009 – 12:07 PMBy Mark Craig
Who needs to go to Arizona to train for a shot at the NFL?
Certainly not Winona State offensive tackle Nick Urban. After training at Velocity Sports Performance in Champlin the past six months, Urban is now a Minnesota Viking.
The 6-4, 305-pounder from the tiny Division II school in Minnesota signed a contract with the Vikings on Monday after being given a tryout during the team’s rookie minicamp over the weekend.
Urban, who received numerous D-II honors after the 2008 season, will continue working out in Minnesota. Only now, he gets to move over to Winter Park.
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[…] to Mark Craig, the Vikings have agreed to a contract with Winona State offensive tackle Nick Urban. Urban has […]
OK, try re-writing this because it makes no sense. First of all, I don’t think Winona State qualifies as “TINY” there are much smaller D-@ schools, Also, “received numerous D-II honors after the 2008 season” needs a little more explaining. So he was at Winona State just one season???? Did he go to Junior College first???? I’m confused.
What is so hard to understand about “received numerous D-II honors after the 2008 season”?
Granted, with over 8000 students I wouldn’t call Winona State a “tiny” school.
Division II has many different lists of all-americans. He appeared on several of them. Winona would be a “middle of the pack” sized school for D2. Some Division II schools can exceed 20,000 students (Grand Valley State), while others have well below 2000.
Nick Urban was on the WSU team for 5 years. I tried to find a article that covered a few points…here is the best one I found…sorry I didn’t want to type them myself. http://www.winonastatewarriors.com/news/2009/4/29/FB_0429093927.aspx
[…] [Vikings] Vikings Sign UDFA Offensive Tackle Nick Urban After training at Velocity Sports Performance in Champlin the past six months, Urban is now a Minnesota Viking. The 6-4, 305-pounder from the tiny Division II school in Minnesota signed a contract with the Vikings on Monday after being given a tryout during the team’s rookie minicamp over the weekend. Urban, who received numerous D-II honors after the 2008 season, will continue working out in Minnesota. Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune […]
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