Quotulatiousness

September 4, 2011

Vikings cut down to 53-man roster

Filed under: Football — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 00:06

All NFL teams had to reduce their rosters to 53 players by 5:00 Saturday evening, but can’t sign players to their practice squads for a period afterward — as some teams are forced to cut quality players, the “final” roster is subject to a certain amount of churning. As a result the following summary is still only “mostly” final.

,

Position Starter(s) Backups Practice Squad Injured Reserve
QB (3) McNabb Ponder, Webb    
WR (5) Berrian, Harvin, Jenkins Camarillo (?), J. Johnson, Aromashodu Arceneaux, Iglesias, S. Burton  
RB (3) Peterson Gerhart, Booker Davis, Robinson  
FB (0) D’Imperio (?)   Asiata  
TE (4) Shiancoe, Rudolph Kleinsasser, Dugan, Reisner1    
OL (10) Loadholt (RT), Hutchinson (LG), Sullivan (C), Herrera (RG), C. Johnson (LT) DeGeare, R. Cook, Cooper, Love, Fusco2, Brown2, Olsen3    
DL (9/10) Robison (LE), Williams (UT)4, Ayodele (NT), J. Allen (RE) Griffen, Ballard, Awasom, Guion, Reed, Evans5    
LB (5) Greenway (S), E.J. Henderson (M), E. Henderson (W) Farwell, Onatolu, Dean Homan  
CB (6) Winfield, Griffin C. Cook, Sherels, A. Allen (?), Carter, B. Burton6 Parks, Torrence  
S (5) T. Johnson, Abdullah Sanford, Frampton, Raymond7   Brinkley8
K (1) Longwell      
P (1) Kluwe      
LS (1) Loeffler      
KR J. Johnson* Sherels*      
PR Booker*      

Players who have been waived are marked like this, while players who I didn’t predict making the team’s roster are marked in green. I’d marked Ryan D’Imperio and Asher Allen with question marks in my original post, as I wasn’t sure either one of them would make the team and didn’t know if they could be signed to the practice squad.

Notes:

1. I’d assumed that Reisner would be cut, but projected to signing on the practice squad. Cutting Dugan created a slot for him.

2. I listed aboth Brown and Fusco as practice squad candidates. Rather surprised to see Fusco made the team, based on the reporting about him.

3. Seth Olsen wasn’t even on my list of practice squad candidates. He must have been doing good work away from the reporters, as I’d barely heard his name until now.

4. Kevin Williams has been suspended for the first two games of the season, and fined another two game cheques. He won’t count against the roster limit until the third game.

5. Fred Evans was a veteran I didn’t expect to see back on the full roster. I was clearly mistaken.

6. I’d originally predicted that CB Brandon Burton would be signed to the practice squad, but Jeremy Fowler noted that he’d made the regular roster.

7. Mistral Raymond made enough moves to join the regular season roster (I projected him as a practice squad player).

8. Jasper Brinkley moved to Injured Reserve: his season is over, and he won’t count against the roster.

No Comments

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.

Powered by WordPress