This year, the NFL has returned to serial cuts as the path to reduce rosters from 90 to 53 players. There are three cut-down deadlines.
8/17: rosters reduced to 85 players
8/24: rosters reduced to 80 players
8/31: rosters reduced to 53 players
What’s the point of the first two cuts? Creeping from 90 to 80 players over a couple cuts feels pointless. It still leaves a final massive cut of 27 players. I suppose that each of the 90-man rosters across the league has 5-10 players that are clearly not going to make the roster. With this cut-down schedule, teams are now forced to whittle away at those players.
Anyway, the Minnesota Vikings had to whittle five players from their 90-man roster. They started that task over the weekend with the release of two players.
Jordan Brailford, DE
Turner Bernard, LS
Injuries were the reason for the two Monday releases.
Blake Proehl, WR
Riley Patterson, K
On cut-down day #1, the Vikings released one more player.
Amari Henderson, CB
The Vikings roster is now at 85 players.
An outcome of the first cuts is that the kicking specialists are now set.
Kicker: Greg Joseph
Punter: Britton Colquitt
Long Snapper: Andrew DePaola
While Joseph and Colquitt may be the only players on the roster doing their respective jobs, I don’t think that either should be too secure in their jobs. Colquitt didn’t punt well in the first preseason game. As for Joseph, it will take a very long stretch (years) of stellar kicking for anyone to trust a Vikings kicker.
The Vikings roster might be in for a little tweaking in advance of the next five-player cut-down. An old friend is coming in for a tryout. The Vikings are apparently looking for a pass rushing boost as Everson Griffen will be at the TCO Performance Center today.
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