Adjusted Minnesota Vikings Roster. Again.

NFL teams rarely tweak their roster during the season for a good reason. Injuries are the most frequent reason. There are a lot of injuries in football. The Minnesota Vikings made a few roster tweaks after their Week 2 tie with the Green Bay Packers. Rookie kicker Daniel Carlson missed two overtime field goals. It's not often that a kicker gets a chance to redeem himself for a missed overtime field goal. Carlson did. And he missed it. He also missed a field goal in regulation. He was released the following day. Former Dallas Cowboys kicker Dan Bailey was signed to replace Carlson. The kicker switch wasn't the only tweak that the Vikings made to their roster following that tie with the Packers. They also added receiver Aldrick Robinson and defensive tackle Tom Johnson. Three roster moves is a high number for a week during the season. Especially when none of the three were due to an injury. Unfortunately, the Vikings had to make a roster move this week due to an injury. Rookie cornerback Mike Hughes tore the ACL in his left knee on Sunday. His loss for the season is a tough one as he was making a greater contribution to the defense with each game. Hughes was placed on injured reserve and defensive tackle David Parry added to the roster. Parry was on the Vikings roster for the first two games of the season but was released when Tom Johnson was signed.

The Vikings also tweaked their practice squad. Perhaps due to the loss of Hughes there was a cornerback swap. Craig James was signed and Jalen Myrick was released. James was with the team during training camp. That time with the Vikings coaches and the defense might have made him more appealing than Myrick if a cornerback is needed on the active roster in the coming weeks. Who knows? I don't. I'm just guessing.

Anyway, here's the updated roster of the Minnesota Vikings.

Offense

Quarterback
  8 Kirk Cousins
  3 Trevor Siemian
  1 Kyle Sloter

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

Fullback
30 C.J. Ham

Wide Receiver
14 Stefon Diggs
19 Adam Thielen
11 Laquon Treadwell
17 Aldrick Robinson
15 Brandon Zylstra

Tight end
82 Kyle Rudolph
89 David Morgan
83 Tyler Conklin

Offensive Line
71 Riley Reiff
79 Tom Compton
65 Pat Elflein
74 Mike Remmers
69 Rashod Hill
61 Brett Jones
75 Brian O'Neill
63 Danny Isidora

Defense

Defensive Line
97 Everson Griffen
93 Sheldon Richardson
98 Linval Joseph
99 Danielle Hunter
91 Stephen Weatherly
96 Tom Johnson
94 Jaleel Johnson
92 Jalyn Holmes
90 Tashawn Bower
95 David Parry

Linebacker
55 Anthony Barr
54 Eric Kendricks
42 Ben Gedeon
50 Eric Wilson
57 Devante Downs
40 Kentrell Brothers

Cornerback
29 Xavier Rhodes
26 Trae Waynes
20 Mackensie Alexander
35 Marcus Sherels
24 Holton Hill

Safety
22 Harrison Smith
34 Andrew Sendejo
23 George Iloka
41 Anthony Harris
27 Jayron Kearse

Special Teams

Kicker
  5 Dan Bailey

Punter
   Matt Wile

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

76 Aviante Collins, OT
21 Mike Hughes, CB

Practice Squad

73 Colby Gossett, G

12 Chad Beebe, WR

85 Jeff Badet, WR

43 Reshard Cliett, LB

66 Curtis Cothran, DT

72 Storm Norton, OT

78 Jonathan Wynn, DE

67 Cornelius Edison, C

36 Craig James, CB
83 Cole Hkutini, TE