He'll receive a key checkup and physical Monday from his Dallas-based physician Dr. Dan Cooper, who originally repaired a knee that needed a multi-ligament reconstruction after a dislocation in August 2016. Bridgewater missed all of last season and began this season on the physically unable to perform list. He's eligible to begin practice this coming week, and the physical from Cooper, his doctor, will go a long way in determining that. The team has three weeks to decide to begin practicing him, opening a 21-day window in which he can be moved to the active roster.
Sources close to Bridgewater say he is ready to go, has had no setbacks, and has nothing holding him back from a physical or football sense. The team has made no decision and won't until after the physical. It could be this week, it could be next week. He has been throwing and doing football activities in rehab, but obviously practice is different. The Vikings do believe he's working incredibly hard and has done everything he needs to do. There is the belief that he plays for the Vikings this year.
