Posts Tagged ‘john Sullivan’

Vikings, Sullivan agree to five-year $25 million extension

The Minnesota Vikings and center John Sullivan have agreed on a five-year extension, Tom Pelissero of 1500ESPN.com reports. According to Pelissero, the extension is worth $25 million with $10 million guaranteed. A sixth-round pick out of Notre Dame in 2008, Sullivan sat behind Matt Birk for a season before assuming the starting job in 2009. Sullivan has [...]

Vikings at Panthers Friday Injury Report

Minnesota Out: G Anthony Herrera (knee) Questionable: RB Lorenzo Booker (concussion), WR Percy Harvin (ribs), CB Antoine Winfield (neck) Probable: S Husain Abdullah (concussion), DE Jared Allen (not injury related), DT Remi Ayodele (ankle), LB E.J. Henderson (knee), RB Adrian Peterson (ankle), DE Brian Robison (shoulder), S Jamarca Sanford (concussion), TE Visanthe Shiancoe (foot), C [...]

Packers at Vikings Friday Injury Report

Green Bay Out: T Chad Clifton (knee, hamstring), LB Jamari Lattimore (shoulder), DE Mike Neal (knee), LB Frank Zombo (knee) Doubtful: CB Sam Shields (concussion) Questionable: DE Ryan Pickett (concussion) Probable: S Morgan Burnett (hand), C/G Ray Dominguez (not injury related), LB Clay Matthews (quadriceps), T Marshall Newhouse (not injury related), TE Andrew Quarless (knee), [...]

Breaking Down The Injury Report

Here is the injury report as broken down by Judd Zulgad at Access Vikings:   Center John Sullivan likely will start for the Vikings on Sunday night against the Packers after missing the past two games because of a calf injury. Meanwhile, wide receiver Percy Harvin, who turned up on the injury report Thursday after [...]

Center Position Still Up For Grabs

“I don’t know.  I have no idea. I wish I had answers for you.” That is what last week’s starting center Ryan Cook said when asked why he was pulled out of the game at halftime and replaced by second year undrafted player, Jon Cooper.  Cook says he has yet to receive an explanation from [...]

Ryan Cook Heads Back To Bench

I, along with some of you, was really hoping that Ryan Cook could prove to be the Vikings answer at the center position.  After all, it was five years ago that Cook was drafted as a center, and Monday was his first start at the position. However, it appears that even with regular starter John [...]

Vikings Inactives Are In

Here are the Vikings inactives for Monday Night: John Sullivan, Hank Baskett, Tyrell Johnson, Chris Cook, Albert Young, Fred Evans,and Everson Griffen.  Joe Webb is inactive but will act as the teams number three quarterback in the case of an emergency. Ryan Cook will start at center.

Cook Likely To Start At Center

Tonight Brett Favre will be on the same starting roster as Randy Moss for the first time ever. According to Judd Zulgad, and in line with what we discussed last week, Brett Favre will be taking snaps from Ryan Cook in his first start at the center position in place of an injured John Sullivan. [...]

Ryan Cook Likely To Start

On Saturday, Brad Childress said that John Sullivan continued to rehab his calf injury and is making progress.  Childress also said that Sullivan would likely make the trip to New York with the team, but it sounds doubtful that he’ll be able to play. “He’s pushing through some stuff here,” Childress said. “I think we’re [...]

Cook Sits While Others Get Back To It

BREAKING NEWS:  The Vikings will play football this week. I know, I know, I’m just as guilty as everyone else when it comes to covering Randy Moss 99.9% of the time this week.  However, we can’t forget that there is a game to be played on Monday Night and that there are 52 other guys [...]