The Minnesota Vikings made a flurry of roster moves on Tuesday, placing four players on injured reserve, including safeties Tyrell Johnson and Husain Abdullah, Dan Wiederer of the Star Tribune reports. Johnson has a hamstring injury described as a “significant” by head coach Leslie Frazier, while Abdullah has missed the past few games with a concussion. Joining the […]
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Vikings at Chiefs Friday Injury Report
Minnesota Questionable: LB E.J. Henderson (knee), S Jamarca Sanford (thigh) Probable: CB Asher Allen (toe), CB Chris Cook (groin), S Tyrell Johnson (hip), TE Jim Kleinsasser (elbow), RB Adrian Peterson (calf), DT Kevin Williams (foot) Kansas City Out: WR Jon Baldwin (thumb) Questionable: CB Brandon Flowers (ankle), S Jon McGraw (shin) Probable: DE Brandon Bair […]
OFFSEASON PREVIEW: Safety
[For more previews of this nature, click on the “2010 Offseason Tracker” tab at the top of this screen.] 2009 Season The Vikings safety play was regarded as atrocious for much of the 2009 season. While it ended up being Adrian Peterson, Brett Favre, Bernard Berrian, and Percy Harvin that “gave away” the Championship game, […]
Sanford Could End Up Being The Steal Of 2009
Vikings seventh round flier of 2009 is backup safety Jamarca Sanford. The word “backup” may be removed from his title fairly soon if he keeps saying all the right things off the field and producing a defensive intensity on the field. Sanford played about 20 snaps with the starting defense in the Vikings regular season […]
Tyrell Johnson: Poor Play Or Poor Scheme?
Tyrell Johnson has received a lot of criticism on this site this season. In an effort to find out just how bad the starting strong safety has played, I ventured to one of my new favorite stats sites, Profootballfocus.com, to look at the numbers. This year Tyrell Johnson’s regular season breaks down like this: Snaps […]
Quote Of The Week
Welcome to our first installment (and possibly last) of my quote of the week segment. The first quote was told to Chip Scoggins of the Star Tribune, and he posted it on his Twitter Account. When Scoggins asked Vikings safety Tyrell Johnson how he thought he’s been playing this year, Johnson replied with: I’ve played […]
Sudden Question Marks In The Starting Lineup
It is amazing what a loss can do to the morale of a fan base. Childress mentioned in his presser on Monday that the mood in the locker room was more that of a 3-11 team rather than an 11-3 team. Judging from how I feel, and from reading comments on this site and others, […]