Alvin Cook will miss the Minnesota Vikings' Week 17 game following the death of his father.

Cook returned to his home in Miami on Tuesday to be with his siblings and will miss the Vikings' daily COVID-19 tests, making him unavailable for the season finale.

Cook's father was just 46 years old. 

Cook leads the NFL in total yards from scrimmage and has scored 17 touchdowns this season.

Randy Moss believes he and Terrell Owens are the two best wide receivers in NFL history, ahead of Jerry Rice.

“I’ll put myself first, I’ll put T.O. second,” Moss said. “I would put Jerry probably third or fourth. I’m talking about dominating the game and changing the game of football. I don’t live on statistics because if you live on statistics and live on championships that’s all political. You’ve seen guys released or cut from a team just by a couple words in the media. You’ve seen guys given contracts or you’ve seen guys not given contracts just because of the color of their skin. You’ve got to throw politics out of the game of football, and look at the impact of what each individual was able to make in the game of football.”

Owens seemed to agree as he assesses Rice as a wide receiver who benefitted from playing the bulk of his career with either Joe Montana or Steve Young.

“When you think about Jerry and the quarterbacks he played with, he never had a drop-off in quarterback. He went from one Hall of Fame quarterback to another,” Owens said.

Moss did say he wasn’t trying to diminish what Rice accomplished.

“I don’t want the fans and the people watching your podcast to get it messed up that we dislike or discredit anything Jerry Rice was able to do or ever accomplish,” Moss said. “I don’t want people to think myself and T.O. is slandering or bashing anything Jerry did, because Jerry was at the top.”