Daily Norseman
Another day, another one of the Minnesota Vikings’ bigger names being placed on injured reserve. . .and this one ends one of the stranger and more disappointing sagas of the 2025 season for our favorite team.
Head coach Kevin O’Connell just announced that the team will be placing offensive tackle Christian Darrisaw on injured reserve, a move that will end his 2025 season with three games remaining.
Darrisaw tore his ACL midway through the 2024 season and spend the offseason rehabbing that injury. He did not wind up on the Physically Unable to Perform List at the start of Training Camp, but wound up missing the first two games of the regular season. He has had several games this season that have seen him leave early and has missed at least a couple of other games as well as he has worked back from the injury. He had not practiced all week this week leading up to Sunday’s game against the New York Giants, and now the speculation about his status for the rest of the season is officially over.
Given that none of us are in the Vikings’ locker room or training room or anything like that, it’s hard to judge from the outside whether or not Darrisaw’s injury was mishandled or anything like that, or whether he may have come back too early from his 2024 injury. Hopefully any lingering issues that still exist will be addressed during the offseason and Darrisaw will be 100% and ready to go for the start of the 2026 season.
Presumably this means that Justin Skule will start at left tackle for the final three games of the season, though the team could elect to use Blake Brandel at that spot as well. The team could even, potentially, give some opportunities to Walter Rouse, who has been inactive for a number of games this season and could use some evaluation time with the Vikings’ playoff prospects officially at zero.
We’ll be along with the final injury report for Sunday’s game later on today, but you won’t see the name Christian Darrisaw on that list, because his 2025 season is officially over because the team will be placing him on injured reserve.
