The Minnesota Vikings will travel to Soldier Field in Week 1 to take on the Chicago Bears on Monday Night Football, and they may have to do it without their longest-tenured player.

At today’s press conference in Eagan, head coach Kevin O’Connell said that safety Harrison Smith is dealing with a “personal health issue” that has kept him away from the team in recent weeks. The issue was not enough to cause the team to put him on injured reserve when they set the 53-man roster, which would have guaranteed Smith missing the first four games of the season. O’Connell did say that Smith would be “evaluated weekly” and that he is expected to make a full recovery.

That’s sufficiently vague, though it’s worth pointing out that it’s really none of our business what the issue is if Smith or the team

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