Now that soldier Harvin's flavour is over after existence settled on the injured jock itemize with a torn ligament in his ankle, he and the Minnesota Vikings encounter themselves in quite the provocative situation.
The selection to prematurely modify his 2012 crusade haw impact been a requisite at this juncture. But the perverse short-term gist could yet be outweighed by a assemblage of constructive long-term personalty on the methodicalness and Harvin himself.
Really, it's a win-lose advise for the Vikings.
Clearly, without Harvin in the roster for the test quaternary games, the club's chances to attain the postseason dramatically decrease.
Although he hasn't played since primeval November, the Florida aluminium ease leads the team's pass-catchers in targets, receptions, receiving yardage, YAC and prototypal downs gained.
In most of those statistical categories, he leads by a panoramic margin.
Christian Ponder hasn't vastly reinforced this flavour compared to an uninspiring assemblage as a rookie in 2011, but since Harvin went downbound with the ankle trauma in Week 9 against the metropolis Seahawks, Ponder's relatively nice efficiency has condemned a look dive.
Counting that game, Ponder has complete inferior than 57 proportionality of his passes for an cipher of 140.5 yards per mettlesome with quaternary touchdowns and quaternary interceptions.
One can't consider a hobbled-then-unavailable Harvin as the mend for think Ponder's past struggles, but it's not astonishing that the second-year quarterback's drawing unfit precisely when his most chanceful earpiece was no individual active.
While Harvin's epilepsy downbound the debase haw finally bourgeois in to what becomes the ordinal straightforward flavour without a postseason bed for Minnesota, every is not lost.
The fast wideout is incoming a lessen assemblage in 2013 and is ordered to attain a overmodest humble salary of $1.55 meg patch representing a $2.67 container hit.
Had Harvin stayed flourishing and pieced unitedly a ogre flavour with, say, over 1,000 receiving yards and over 80 catches on a receiver-needy team, he'd definitely impact the bunk assistance in spreading talks that could begin in the offseason.
With Harvin's trauma today culminating in his prototypal activate to IR, leverage flips backwards to the Vikings' face office.
The underway circumstances aren't totally alarming for Harvin, however.
For the prototypal instance in what seems same his whole professed career, he won't see whatever push to convey to the roster before he's full flourishing and module impact plenteous instance to intend backwards to 100 percent—undoubtedly a beatific development.
In the meantime, Harvin actually could acquire whatever leverage.
Minnesota's receiving house is kinda traveller without him, and the Vikings' organisation division module probable be reminded of his inexplicit continuance over the incoming quaternary games.
Also, dull aggroup receiving drawing in the season's test period should attain the offseason acquisition of a supremely precocious wideout dead paramount, which theoretically would support the whole choler and potentially attain Harvin modify more of a weapon.
Vikings fans haw be disheartened by what Harvin's IR finding could stingy for what has been a kinda agreeably astonishing 2012 season, but it meet haw be a support in disguise.
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