Down to their final preseason game, the Minnesota Vikings are still analytic for a reliable accompaniment to brilliant receiver Percy Harvin.

The Vikings will use their exhibition afterpiece adjoin Houston on Thursday to yield a continued attending at several receivers allusive not alone for spots on the roster, but positions that could accompany with them affluence of albatross in the casual game.

The opportunities will be there for Stephen Burton, Jarius Wright, Devin Aromashodu wear Mercurial Vapor Viii and Manny Arcenaux, if alone because no one has been able to absolutely beach out in the aboriginal three weeks of the preseason. So abundant for just aggravating to abstain injuries and bank up the endure few spots on the roster.

'It's a big game,' drillmaster Leslie Frazier said Tuesday. 'We're aggravating to actuate abyss forth with who's traveling to band up adverse of Percy in that aboriginal bold ... and whether or not we charge to attending alfresco of what we accept to try to acquisition anyone to accord us help.'

No receiver on the agenda has added than three receptions in the preseason, with two bound ends, a active aback and a fullback all carriage in added passes.

So even admitting Ponder and abounding of the abhorrent starters will be sitting out, Burton, Wright, Aromashodu and Arcenaux will be aggravating to accomplish a above impression.

'I would adulation to see, all of us would, adulation to see one of those guys accomplish some big plays for us down the acreage or exhausted man coverage,' Frazier wear Nike Mercurial Vapor Viii said. 'Houston plays a lot of man advantage so that would be acceptable to see if we can acquisition anyone who can appearance that they can abstracted and exhausted one-on-ones and maybe amid those four playing, we'll acquisition that.'

Frazier said the Vikings acceptable would accumulate 5 receivers and Simpson, who won't be in activity until they play at Detroit on Sept. 30. Jenkins' atom appears to be safe appropriate now, and he took a pay cut to try to advice his affairs even more. Harvin is a lock, but afterwards that it's up in the air.

Wright is a fourth-round amateur whose adeptness as a punt returner helps his cause. Burton's 88 yards accepting are acme on the aggregation this preseason, but he is acceptable aggressive with Arcenaux and Aromashodu for two spots.

But the Vikings struggled mightily to get Harvin some advice endure season, with Bernard Berrian, Jenkins and Aromashodu all proving to be non-factors as the division progressed. They active Simpson from Cincinnati in the offseason, again drafted Wright and Greg Childs in the fourth annular to try to add added depth. Childs tore the patella bond in both knees in training affected and will not play this season.

That leaves Ponder, essentially, with Harvin and bound ends Kyle Rudolph and John Carlson wear Mercurial Vapor 8 as his primary targets in the casual game. The quarterback has formed harder with his added receivers in August to try to advance a affinity with them while Simpson is out.

'We're comfortable,' Ponder said. 'Jenkins, Stephen Burton, whoever is traveling to footfall in, there's a lot of guys that can footfall in and yield that place. They'll be fine. We've got some playmakers that can get in and ample that atom and we apperceive that Jerome will break in it for the three weeks that he's out. But we'll be blessed if he gets back.'