Blair Walsh doesn’t have to worry about his job for the moment, Vikings general manager Rick Spielman said Tuesday.

“I think there is no question that he is our kicker,” Spielman said when asked about the possibility of bringing in competition for the third-year pro.

Spielman said Walsh, who missed a 38-yard field goal Sunday in Denver before hitting from 33 and 38, is “working extremely hard to get through this.”

Walsh’s critics forget that “a couple years ago, he’s a young kicker that was in the Pro Bowl,” Spielman said. “Sometimes these guys go through issues, you know?”

He pointed to punter Jeff Locke, who struggled last season but has markedly improved his net average and rate of pinning opponents behind the 20-yard line.

Walsh missed nine field-goal attempts last season. After a rocky preseason, he missed a 44-yard attempt in the team’s opener at San Francisco and a 33-yard extra point the following week at home against Detroit.

“Part of having a young football team and young players is sometimes you’re going to have to get them through some of that adversity,” Spielman said.

Even if the team were so inclined, it would be financially thorny to make a kicking change. Walsh signed a four-year, $14 million contract extension in the offseason that makes him prohibitively expensive to release until next summer at the earliest.

Asked if Walsh’s struggles are mental or physical, Spielman responded: “You’d have to ask Blair that.”

“I have my thoughts,” he said, “but I’d rather have Blair and the coaches share that.”

READY TO ROLL

When Stefon Diggs fumbled his fourth-ever NFL catch Sunday, he fell on the ball, thanked God for the opportunity and said to himself, “Don’t do it again.”

On his very next reception, a little more than a quarter later: “Boom, it happened again.”

The miscues notwithstanding — Diggs jumped on the second one, too — the rookie receiver is one Vikings player who isn’t looking forward to the bye week. After catching six passes for a team-high 87 yards receiving Sunday, including the two longest passes Teddy Bridgewater completed all day, Diggs is ready to keep it rolling.

“Once I’m kind of locked in, I’m locked in,” the rookie receiver said. “Once you get the first opportunity, you want to continue to get better and keep getting after it.”

In the week leading up to the game, with the receiving corps banged up and a debut for Diggs looking likely, a number of veterans pulled him aside. Their advice?

“Be you,” he said.

Hearing it from Bridgewater was especially meaningful because, Diggs said, “He gives you that confidence to go out there and just make plays.”

Bridgewater said Diggs “stepped up big” Sunday.

“You watch him in practice, he’s eager to be great,” the quarterback said. “He listens to the older guys in that room, and those guys are leading him in the right direction.”

But about those fumbles …

“We’re going to continue to work with him on ball security,” Bridgewater said. “Coach (Mike Zimmer) has been making fun of him, telling him (that) guys tackle the football in this league.”

Diggs expects as much.

“He’s going to give me a hard time. I need a hard time, because it can’t happen in a game, and it could have been crucial in a game,” he said.

Diggs pointed to Monday night’s Detroit-Seattle game, in which Lions receiver Calvin Johnson had the ball punched away just before he crossed the goal line for what would have been the go-ahead touchdown late in the game. The Seahawks wound up with the ball and the win.

“That … loses games,” Diggs said. “I don’t want to be the guy that did.”

Does he know if his showing Sunday will earn him more snaps? “Not at all,” he said.

Asked what he thought he has showed the coaches, Diggs said that’s not for him to say.

How will he handle the time off now that he’s had a taste of the action? Visit with his family, Diggs said, “give them a hug and a kiss, and get back to work.”

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