Minnesota Vikings 53-man Roster

Much of the Minnesota Vikings roster tweaks of the past few weeks has been COVID-inspired. Before the season, it was speculated that the team’s horrible vaccination rate could cause problems during the season. It has. Safety Harrison Smith and center Garrett Bradbury each missed the past two games due to catching COVID. Smith wasn’t vaccinated. Bradbury was. Over the past couple weeks, as many as six players were on the reserve list devoted to those with virus. Four players are currently on it. Offensive lineman Dakota Dozier had symptoms severe enough that he spent some time in the hospital. Imagine how much of this could’ve been avoided if these players had been a bit more considerate of those around them and gotten vaccinated. Smith and Bradbury are back on the active roster and practicing. Hopefully, they’ll be ready for the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. Bradbury may have returned to some competition from Mason Cole for his starting center job. 

The Vikings defense has improved in recent weeks. That’s a bit of a surprise seeing as the bulk of that improvement was done with more than a third of the starters on injured and COVID reserve.

Danielle Hunter 

Patrick Peterson 

Michael Pierce

Harrison Smith

Smith should play Sunday. Peterson could play. Hopefully, Pierce returns in a couple weeks. That’s significant reinforcements for the stretch run of the season. 

Here’s the Vikings roster in advance of Sunday’s big game against the Green Bay Packers. 

Minnesota Vikings Roster

Offense (25 Players)

Quarterbacks (3)

  8 Kirk Cousins

14 Sean Mannion

11 Kellen Mond

Running Backs (3)

33 Dalvin Cook
25 Alexander Mattison

26 Kene Nwangwu

Fullbacks (1)

30 C.J. Ham

Receivers (6)
19 Adam Thielen
18 Justin Jefferson

17 K.J. Osborn

12 DeDe Westbrook

15 Ihmir Smith-Marsette 

85 Dan Chisena

Tight Ends (3)
83 Tyler Conklin

89 Chris Herndon

35 Luke Stocker

Offensive Tackles (4)
75 Brian O'Neill

71 Christian Darrisaw
69 Rashod Hill

64 Blake Brandel

Guards (3)

72 Ezra Cleveland

74 Oli Udoh

51 Wyatt Davis

Centers (2)

56 Garrett Bradbury

52 Mason Cole

Defense (24 Players)

Defensive Ends (4)

97 Everson Griffen

98 D.J. Wonnum

93 Patrick Jones II

66 Eddie Yarbrough

Defensive Tackles (5)

94 Dalvin Tomlinson

90 Sheldon Richardson

96 Armon Watts
92 James Lynch

Linebackers (7)
55 Anthony Barr

54 Eric Kendricks
59 Nick Vigil

45 Troy Dye

48 Blake Lynch

57 Ryan Connelly

41 Chazz Surratt

Cornerbacks (5)

21 Bashaud Breeland

27 Cameron Dantzler

24 Mackensie Alexander

29 Kris Boyd

20 Harrison Hand

Safeties (3)

22 Harrison Smith
23 Xavier Woods

43 Camryn Bynum

Special Teams (3 Players)

Kicker

  1 Greg Joseph

Punter
 3 Jordan Berry

Long Snapper
42 Andrew DePaola

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Practice Squad

47 Tuf Borland, LB

40 Zach Davidson, TE

86 Brandon Dillon, TE

46 Myles Dorn, S

37 Garrett Gorshek, FB

68 Kyle Hinton, OG

  9 Trishton Jackson, WR

91 T.Y. McGill, DT

87 Myron Mitchell, WR

39 Parry Nickerson, CB

73 Nate Orchard, DE

61 Timon Parris, OT

65 Spencer Pulley, C

36 A.J Rose Jr., RB

50 T.J. Smith, DT

  5 Tye Smith, CB

Reserve/Designated To Return

   7 Patrick Peterson

Reserve/Injured

12 Chad Beebe

82 Ben Ellefson

99 Danielle Hunter

81 Olabisi Johnson

58 Michael Pierce

13 Blake Proehl

95 Janarius Robinson

66 Jordon Scott

84 Irv Smith Jr.

14 Nate Stanley

Reserve/COVID

44 Josh Metellus

79 Kenny Willekes

Practice Squad/COVID

34 Jake Bargas

78 Dakota Dozier

Reserve/Non-Football Injury

76 Jaylen Twyman