Minnesota Vikings
Well, here it is, ladies and gentlemen. . .the final injury reports that we’ll bring you for this 2025 Minnesota Vikings season. The Vikings and the Green Bay Packers have both released their last injury reports ahead of Sunday afternoon’s game at U.S. Bank Stadium. Let’s take a look at everyone that’s been given an injury designation ahead of this one.
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First and foremost, Happy New Year to everyone in the DN family. I hope 2026 brings health, happiness, and less collective agita from our shared passion: the Minnesota Vikings.
THAT’S A WRAP
The curtain closes on the 2025 season against the Green Bay Packers at U.S. Bank Stadium on Sunday. The fact that this team has shown a lot of heart and fight over the last month and can actually finish with a winning record is important and noteworthy, but, like all things Vikings, the experience is tinged with a tangible degree of frustration over what could have been.
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This game at the beginning of the year looked like a marquee matchup. The luster is gone, but it’s the last Minnesota Viking football we’ll enjoy for eight months. The team has finished the season on a hot streak and hopes to keep that momentum going. J.J. McCarthy sounds like he’ll be ready to go. Justin Jefferson will be looking to get over the 1,000 yard mark for the season. The Packers are limping into the playoffs literally and figuratively. They plan on resting their starters, so I don’t anticipate much fight from the NFC 7 seed.
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Dive into Episode 400 of The Real Forness Show, where Tyler Forness and Dave Stefano unpack the Minnesota Vikings’ Week 18 clash against the Green Bay Packers. With no playoff stakes, this Border Battle at U.S. Bank Stadium feels like a preseason tune-up, but it’s packed with intrigue for Vikings fans eyeing 2026 rebuilds, quarterback drama, and coaching futures.
In this breakdown for Minnesota Vikings enthusiasts, Forness and Stefano deliver expert analysis on the 8-8 Vikings aiming for a winning season under Kevin O’Connell. They explore J.J. McCarthy’s hand fracture recovery and potential start, Jordan Love resting for playoffs with...
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As we get closer to Sunday’s regular season finale at U.S. Bank Stadium, it appears that the quarterback situations for both the Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers have gotten significantly clearer.
For the Vikings, it would seem that J.J. McCarthy is back on track to start for the Vikings on Sunday afternoon, as he was a full participant in Thursday’s second practice of the week after being limited on Wednesday. McCarthy suffered a hairline fracture in his throwing hand in the Vikings’ Week 16 win over the New York Giants and did not play in Week 17 when...
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Happy New Year, everybody! It’s time to take a look at the second injury reports of the week for both the Green Bay Packers and our Minnesota Vikings ahead of Sunday’s regular season finale at U.S. Bank Stadium, so let’s go ahead and get to those now.
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The 2025 NFL season will officially come to an end for the Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium on Sunday afternoon, as they’ll host their division rivals, the Green Bay Packers.
Green Bay won the first game of the annual home-and-home series this season at Lambeau Field by a score of 23-6 in what was an abysmal all-around performance by the Vikings. This time around, the Packers are locked into the #7 seed in the NFC playoffs while the Vikings are out of playoff contention, but the home team does come into this one riding a four-game winning streak and...
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The final game of the 2025 regular season for our Minnesota Vikings is officially within sight, as the first injury reports for the week have been released. Let’s take a look at who’s dealing with issues and what capacity they’re practicing in (or not practicing in).
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Now that the season is all but over with one meaningless game left to play, the attention is now on the offseason (at least for me). I hope the team can come out of this game injury free and I hope they play it safe with any starter that is already banged up like Brian O’Neill, TJ Hockenson, and JJ McCarthy. No use playing JJ now. They cannot risk him getting hurt again in a meaningless game. Yes, he needs snaps but the Packers will likely be sitting a bunch of starters too.
I’m not sure what the team is...
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If we are seeing the final few games in the end of the career of future Hall of Famer Harrison Smith, the Hitman is going out with a bang.
The announcement has just come down that Smith has been named the NFC’s Defensive Player of the Week for his performance against the Detroit Lions in Week 17, where he helped lead a Minnesota Vikings defense that suffocated one of the NFL’s top offenses all afternoon in the team’s 23-10 victory over the Lions on Christmas Day.
In the victory, Smith had three tackles, including two tackles for loss, an interception,...
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Stats are for losers. That quote has been echoed by countless coaches, players, owners, and team personnel throughout NFL history. With the season lost, we have time before the final game to focus on stats rather than what truly matters.
Justin Jefferson is 53 yards short of 1,000 yards for the season. It’s a milestone he has achieved his first 5 seasons in the NFL. Normally, you’d not even think twice about him going over that low total, but it’s been that kind of year. Inconsistent QB play, drops, and overall team struggles have kept Jefferson relatively quiet this season....
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