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• Rhodes played probably his best game as a pro until getting hurt, with four tackles and four of his team's nine passes defended. He'll have to pass his post-concussion tests to be cleared to play this week, and since the Vikings released cornerback A.J. Jefferson Monday their depth chart in the secondary is again unsettled. Cornerback Josh Robinson is already out with a broken sternum.
• Frazier said Robinson won't be placed on injured reserve, however. Another seriously injured player expected back before the end of the season is tight end Kyle Rudolph, who could begin practicing on his broken left foot next week, Frazier said. Safety Harrison Smith, who has missed the last six games because of a turf toe injury on his left foot, is on track to return to practice Wednesday. He's eligible to be taken off injured reserve and return for the final three games.
• Frazier, ever the optimist, continued to speak of pride and hope when reflecting on the tie against the Packers and looking ahead to the final five games.
• "I do sense that there's a belief there that things are heading in the right direction," Frazier said. "We've just got to get a W."
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SD corn harvest near done; low prices big concern
CARSON WALKER, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota farmers have harvested most of this year's row crops and the frigid weather shouldn't hurt grain still in the field, though fall tillage is probably over because the ground is frozen.
• The state had colder-than-normal temperatures over the past week, but dry weather helped the remaining harvest wrap up in most areas, the National Agriculture Statistics Service said Monday in its weekly crop progress report.
• Soybeans are done and the corn harvest is an estimated 95 percent complete, which is behind last year when it was out of the field but ahead of the 84 percent average for this time of year, the report said.
• "In both corn and soybeans, we're actually running ahead of the five-year average," said Carter Anderson, state director of the statistics service.
• Brian Smith, of Montrose, president of the South Dakota Corn Utilization Council, said there's very little corn still in the field around his farm in eastern South Dakota.
• The cold temps don't keep farmers from harvesting the rest, as long as there's no snow on it, he said. But fall tillage is likely done, Smith said.
• "The ground is frozen now, so a guy couldn't do that if you wanted to. I doubt it's going to thaw out enough," he said.
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