Minnesota Vikings Roster. Again.

There were so many changes to the 90-man roster of the Minnesota Vikings that it had to be posted again. Injuries forced most of the changes. Three players were injured in last week's preseason game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. A fourth was injured during one of the practices against the Jaguars that preceded the game.

Ade Aruna, DE
Johnny Stanton, FB

Josiah Price, TE

Cedrick Lang, OT

Those four boosted to six the number of players that the Vikings now have on injured reserve. It's August and the Vikings already have six players on injured reserve. That's way too many and it has to stop.

The Vikings also settled the kicking competition that's been raging since the spring when they released Kai Forbath. Rookie Daniel Carlson is the kicker moving forward. 

The Vikings made a big move to improve the defensive backfield by signing safety George Iloka after his surprising release by the Cincinnati Bengals last Sunday.

And finally, the Vikings tackled depth and health issues on the interior of the offensive line today by acquiring C/G Brett Jones from the New York Giants. It's being reported by some in the know that the Vikings will send a seventh round pick in 2019 to the Giants. Did new Giants head coach Pat Shumur do his former team a favor? Who knows? I don't. Starting center Pat Elflein has yet to removed from the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list. With the the regular season two weeks away, the concern over Elfein's availability early in the season, let alone the start of the season, grows by the day. Jones is center insurance and perhaps he moves to left guard when Elflein does return. And he will return.

With the addition of Jones the Vikings need to release a player. Until that happens, here's the Vikings current 91-man roster. 

Offense

Quarterback
  8 Kirk Cousins
  3 Trevor Siemian
  1 Kyle Sloter
  6 Peter Pujals

Halfback
33 Dalvin Cook
25 Latavius Murray
31 Mack Brown
32 Roc Thomas
44 Mike Boone

Fullback
30 C.J. Ham
48 Kobe McCrary
43 Luke McNitt

Wide Receiver
14 Stefon Diggs
19 Adam Thielen
11 Laquon Treadwell
13 Stacy Coley
17 Kendall Wright
15 Brandon Zylstra

16 Cayleb Jones
84 Chad Beebe

12 Tavarres King
85 Jeff Badet
18 Korey Robertson
  9 Jake Weineke

Tight end
82 Kyle Rudolph
89 David Morgan
81 Blake Bell
83 Tyler Conklin
86 Tyler Hoppes

Offensive Line
71 Riley Reiff
79 Tom Compton
65 Pat Elflein
74 Mike Remmers
69 Rashod Hill
     Brett Jones
75 Brian O'Neill
76 Aviante Collins
63 Danny Isidora
78 Dieugot Joseph
67 Cornelius Edison
64 Josh Andrews
73 Colby Gossett
66 Kaleb Johnson
72 Storm Norton
59 J.P. Quinn
68 Kareem Are
61 Jacob Judd

Defense

Defensive Line
97 Everson Griffen
93 Sheldon Richardson
98 Linval Joseph
99 Danielle Hunter
96 Brian Robison
91 Stephen Weatherly
90 Tashawn Bower
94 Jaleel Johnson
92 Jalyn Holmes
95 Ifeadi Odenigbo
60 David Parry
78 Jonathan Wynn
66 Curtis Cothran

Linebacker
55 Anthony Barr
54 Eric Kendricks
42 Ben Gedeon
50 Eric Wilson
40 Kentrell Brothers
57 Devante Downs
56 Antwione Williams
43 Reshard Cliett
58 Garrett Dooley
45 Brett Taylor
49 Michael Needham


Cornerback
29 Xavier Rhodes
26 Trae Waynes
20 Mackensie Alexander
21 Mike Hughes
23 Terence Newman
35 Marcus Sherels
37 Holton Hill
24 Horace Richardson
39 Jack Tocho
46 Trevon Mathis
36 Craig James

Safety
22 Harrison Smith
34 Andrew Sendejo
28 George Iloka
41 Anthony Harris
27 Jayron Kearse
38 Tray Matthews

Kicker
  7 Daniel Carlson

Punter
  4 Ryan Quigley

Long snapper
47 Kevin McDermott

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Injured Reserve

62 Nick Easton, G

61 Ade Aruna, DE

51 Hercules Mata'afa, DL

48 Johnny Stanton, FB

87 Josiah Price, TE

68 Cedrick Lang, OT