Minnesota Vikings
With a little less than five hours to go before NFL teams need to have their rosters down to 53 players, the Minnesota Vikings have started making some moves, and there’s one move that another team made that might be worth monitoring as well.
The team has announced that they have waived both offensive lineman Michael Gonzalez and running back Xazavian Valladay. Neither of these were unexpected moves, but they could both be practice squad candidates if the Vikings are interested in bringing them back.
Another move that we’ve already seen happen today is the Washington Commanders releasing wide receiver...
Daily Norseman
Vikings roster cuts and player trades ignite the 2025 drama—will Thielen return? As the NFL cutdown deadline looms on August 26, 2025, Minnesota Vikings fans are buzzing over potential wide receiver acquisitions amid injuries and suspensions. In this episode of The Real Forno Show, hosts Tyler Forness and Dave Stefano deliver a gripping breakdown, exploring trades for Adam Thielen, Jakobi Meyers, and Trey Palmer to bolster the offense around Justin Jefferson and QB J.J. McCarthy.
This Vikings 1st & SKOL production dives into Minnesota’s roster maneuvers. Forness, A to Z Sports’ Vikings reporter, and producer Stefano analyze the team’s path...
Daily Norseman
Futures Day is officially upon us for our friends over at FanDuel, and we’re going to take a moment here to look at the odds they have for the best and most important division in the National Football League, the NFC North. What do they have to say about which team has the best chance to win the division? Let’s have a look at them, based on their current order of favorites.
Yes, the Lions are the favorite to win the division again, and it’s probably just the easiest to put them in that spot. ....
Daily Norseman
With our friends at FanDuel officially celebrating Futures Day, we’re taking a couple of opportunities before the roster excitement really gets underway to look at a few more things for the Minnesota Vikings as far as how the sharps are viewing them for the 2025 NFL season. We’ve got several different odds for them here, including my thoughts on what they reflect.
Spoiler. . .I’m slightly biased towards the Vikings in pretty much every respect. Take any advice I might have accordingly.
According to FanDuel, the Vikings are currently at +2200 to win the Super Bowl...
Daily Norseman
It was a quiet day for the Minnesota Vikings, as we now sit less than 24 hours away from the 53-man roster deadline. The team waived two players, reducing their roster to 77 and leaving them with 24 more moves to make before Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 PM Central time.
The team has announced that they have waived offensive tackle Leroy Watson IV and punter Oscar Chapman. The latter means that Ryan Wright has held on to the punting job. . .at least for now.
Watson was always going to have a bit of an uphill battle to make the...
Daily Norseman
We’ve got the results of our SB Nation Reacts poll for this week. . .perhaps a little later than they should have been posted. . .and we have the answer to last week’s question about undrafted free agents and the Minnesota Vikings, so let’s take a look at what everyone said.
We asked you which UDFA stood the best chance of making the Vikings’ roster. We were limited in the number of choices that we could give you, but it appears that the majority of folks who voted gravitated to a couple of players who, all things considered, are now...
Daily Norseman
The Minnesota Vikings have made some recent roster moves, trading Sam Howell to the Eagles, signing Carson Wentz and releasing Brett Rypien. Those moves clearly set the depth chart at QB going into Week 1. J.J. McCarthy will be QB1, the experienced Carson Wentz will back him up and undrafted rookie Max Brosmer at QB3.
The depth chart looks better than it did a week ago. The season will depend heavily on J.J. McCarthy’s development. Anything that aids in that, is a good thing. Carson Wentz provides an experienced perspective in the meeting room and the capability to step in...
Daily Norseman
Vikings roster shockers explode as Max Brosmer shines in preseason finale—trades, cuts, and strategies revealed! In this episode of Two Old Bloggers, Dave Stefano flies solo while Darren Campbell tends to a family matter, diving deep into the Minnesota Vikings’ 23-13 loss to the Tennessee Titans, final 53-man roster predictions, the Harrison Phillips trade, and Kevin O’Connell’s preseason philosophy. As a Vikings 1st & SKOL production, this show delivers unfiltered insights for Vikings fans hungry for NFL preseason analysis ahead of the September 8, 2025, opener at the Chicago Bears.
With roster cuts looming by August 27, 2025, Stefano breaks...
Daily Norseman
The Minnesota Vikings completed a shuffle of their backup quarterbacks on Sunday, having completed their evaluations of Brett Rypien, Sam Howell, and Max Brosmer after the last preseason game concluded on Friday night.
Apparently Kevin O’Connell and company had seen enough of Sam Howell after two preseason games and training camp to sit him against the Titans and then send him packing to Philadelphia. Brett Rypien was probably already out the door in the coaches’ minds on Friday night, and his performance left them with no second thoughts.
But jettisoning Howell and Rypien probably wouldn’t have happened unless KOC was...
Daily Norseman
With all of this year’s preseason games in the books, the Minnesota Vikings are in the process of reducing their roster to 53 players by the league-mandated deadline of 3:00 PM Central time on Tuesday afternoon.
We’re using our first-ever stream here on the new platform to help you keep track of everything relating to the team making their roster cuts as we get closer to the deadline. Whenever the Vikings make any sort of move, we will do our best to get those moves on here as soon as possible.
Once the roster deadline hits, we will be keeping...
Daily Norseman
Now that the Minnesota Vikings have started making moves to get their roster down to 53 players before the 3:00 PM Central Tuesday deadline, we want to take an opportunity to go over some of the rules that the Vikings (and the other 31 NFL teams that don’t matter as much) have to follow when getting their rosters reduced. Hopefully, this can alleviate any confusion that anyone might have when it comes to certain moves.
Over the next couple of days, you’ll hear about players getting both waived and released by their teams. There is a...
Daily Norseman
With a little more than 48 hours to go before their roster needs to be down to 53 players, the Minnesota Vikings have announced their first wave of roster moves.
Along with releasing quarterback Brett Rypien, a move that we mentioned earlier today, the Vikings have announced that they have waived the following players:
The Vikings have also terminated the contract of linebacker Cam...
Daily Norseman
