{"id":32625,"date":"2015-09-06T02:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32625"},"modified":"2015-09-05T19:19:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T23:19:13","slug":"vikings-cut-down-to-53-player-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/09\/06\/vikings-cut-down-to-53-player-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings cut down to &#8220;final&#8221; roster for 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10672\" style=\"float: left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;\" title=\"Viking_Head\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Viking_Head.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"81\" \/>Here&#8217;s how the Vikings&#8217; cut-down went down &#8230; compared to my initial guess from yesterday for who&#8217;d make the 53:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>QB<\/strong> (3) \u2014 Teddy Bridgewater, Shaun Hill, Taylor Heinicke<\/li>\n<li><strong>RB\/FB<\/strong> (4) \u2014 Adrian Peterson, Jerick McKinnon, Matt Asiata, <span style=\"color: red;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Dominique Williams<\/span><\/span>, <font color=\"green\">Zach Line<\/font><\/li>\n<p>I actually didn&#8217;t expect Williams to make the team, but I thought he was a better option than Zach Line, who <em>did<\/em> make the team.<\/p>\n<li><strong>WR<\/strong> (6) \u2014 Mike Wallace, Charles Johnson, Jarius Wright, Stefon Diggs (R), Adam Thielen, Cordarrelle Patterson<\/li>\n<li><strong>TE<\/strong> (4) \u2014 Kyle Rudolph, Rhett Ellison, Mycole Pruitt (R), Chase Ford<\/li>\n<li><strong>OL<\/strong> (9) \u2014 LT Matt Kalil, LG Brandon Fusco, C John Sullivan, RG Mike Harris, RT T.J. Clemmings, C\/G Joe Berger, T Austin Shepherd, C\/G Zac Kerin<\/li>\n<p>I said this is the most likely position the team might fill from the waiver wire &#8230; instead, they traded with San Diego, giving up a 2016 sixth round pick for OT\/OG <span style=\"color: green;\">Jeremiah Sirles<\/span>)<\/p>\n<li><strong>DL<\/strong> (9) \u2014 RDE Everson Griffen, NT Linval Joseph, UT Sharif Floyd, LDE Brian Robison, DE Justin Trattou, DT Tom Johnson, DT Shamar Stephen, DE Scott Chrichton, DE Danielle Hunter<\/li>\n<li><strong>LB<\/strong> (6) \u2014 WLB Chad Greenway, MLB Gerald Hodges, SLB Anthony Barr, LB Audie Cole, LB Eric Kendricks, <span style=\"color: red;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LB Brandon Watts<\/span><\/span>, <span style=\"color: red;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LB Michael Mauti<\/span><\/span>, <span style=\"color: green;\">Edmond Robinson<\/span><\/li>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t see Watts or Mauti being waived, but there was a logjam of quality linebackers and not all could be retained on the roster. Mauti is especially surprising given his prowess on special teams.<\/p>\n<li><strong>CB<\/strong> (5) \u2014 Xavier Rhodes, Terence Newman, Captain Munnerlyn, Trae Waynes, Jabari Price (suspended for first 2 games, won&#8217;t count against roster), Marcus Sherels<\/li>\n<li><strong>S<\/strong> (4) \u2014 Harrison Smith, Robert Blanton, Andrew Sendejo, Antone Exum<\/li>\n<li><strong>P<\/strong> (1) \u2014 Jeff Locke<\/li>\n<li><strong>K<\/strong> (1) \u2014 Blair Walsh<\/li>\n<li><strong>LS<\/strong> (1) \u2014 Kevin McDermott<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There will likely be a change or two before the kickoff of the first regular season game, but this should be pretty much the team the Vikings will play 2015 with. Practice squads can be formed once the waiver period expires for players who were cut from their teams on Saturday. Among the players I expect to see the team sign to the practice squad are C Tom Farniok, G Isame Faciane, RB Dominique Williams (or RB Joe Banyard &#8230; I don&#8217;t think both will make it), FB Blake Renaud, WR Isaac Fruechte, LB Brian Peters, CB Josh Thomas, and S Anthony Harris. The team isn&#8217;t restricted to the players they had in their own training camp, so a couple of signees could be players nobody in Minnesota has heard of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how the Vikings&#8217; cut-down went down &#8230; compared to my initial guess from yesterday for who&#8217;d make the 53: QB (3) \u2014 Teddy Bridgewater, Shaun Hill, Taylor Heinicke RB\/FB (4) \u2014 Adrian Peterson, Jerick McKinnon, Matt Asiata, Dominique Williams, Zach Line I actually didn&#8217;t expect Williams to make the team, but I thought he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[126,179],"class_list":["post-32625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8ud","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32625"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32631,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32625\/revisions\/32631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}