Kyle Rudolph's NFL blog: Vikings tight end's twitter Q&A

Minnesota Vikings' tight end Kyle Rudolph is penning a weekly blog during the 2017 NFL season. In his latest offering, he looks forward to a big match-up with the Los Angeles Rams, live on Sky Sports, and answers your twitter questions...

What a win in Washington!

It feels good to put in that kind of performance after a bye week, keep winning, and that's what our focus is again this weekend - a huge game against the Rams.

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A 7-2 team taking on a 7-2 team, both with aspirations of not only making the play-offs but having home field advantage through it.

It's a massive game for us. They've been awesome so far this year, with an explosive, high-powered offense, and a very fast team defense. It will be a great test for us.

Thanks for sending in all of your twitter questions for me over the past week. Time to get to them...

We have definitely learnt from the mistakes we made last year. Just look at us this past week - it was important for us, coming out of our bye week, getting a win in Washington. Last year, we were 5-0 going into the bye, but came out after it and didn't play very well. Hopefully this time round, we're picking up right where we left off.

If you look at what the Saints have done since we played them, you'd have to say them. We met them in the opening game of the year - they played us tough for most of the game, but we were able to pull out the win at the end. Since then though, they've won their last seven straight and are playing really good football right now.

I'd say Ha Ha Clinton-Dix from Green Bay. A lot of time at tight end, you get matched up against a safety, and he is a bigger, taller safety, that can also run pretty well. That makes him pretty tough to face.

No, not really. Having been over already in 2013 - we had a home game at Wembley - we saw we had a ton of Vikings fans in the UK. It was great to go back this year and see them turn out in force yet again at Twickenham.

There are a lot of guys that are playing at a really high level. I mentioned him last week; Travis Kelce is doing amazing things over in Kansas City. You've got Jimmy Graham in Seattle, getting back to catching all number of touchdowns, like he did in New Orleans. Jordan Reed in Washington has been banged up, but when healthy, he is as good as anybody. I'd put myself up there in that bracket too; it's a fun time to be a tight end in the NFL.

20 or 30?! I'm not planning on playing quarterback this week, so that might be a little tough, but hopefully I can get a couple of touchdowns for you.

I don't necessarily think there have been more injuries than in previous years, it's just that unfortunately this year, the injuries have happened to bigger name players. There's a ton of superstar players that are hurt and out for the season, but I think our game is as safe as ever. Sadly, injuries are just a part of the game.

I don't think it's a distraction for the team. Case Keenum has been named the starter again for this week and has done a great job all year. Sure, Sam Bradford was our man at the beginning of the season, but then he has had problems with injury.

As a result, we have been fairly fluid at the position, but Case has done a great job preparing himself each week as if he is the starter - he has gone out and won six games for us. It's great to have Teddy Bridgewater back though too.

He is looking even better than he was before the injury. When you go down with a serious injury like that, you really gain perspective. You learn a lot, not just about football but about yourself as a person.

Watch Kyle Rudolph in action for the Minnesota Vikings, as they take on the Los Angeles Rams this Sunday, live on Sky Sports Action from 5.30pm.

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