{"id":393374,"date":"2026-01-07T06:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393374\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T06:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:58:23","slug":"another-jalen-redmond-vikings-reportedly-signing-two-cfl-standouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393374\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Jalen Redmond? Vikings reportedly signing two CFL standouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple years ago, the Vikings signed a defensive tackle who had gone undrafted out of college and then made a name for himself in a lower-level professional league. That player was Jalen Redmond, who landed in Minnesota in 2024 after a strong spring season in the United Football League. <\/p>\n

Redmond earned a role and showed some flashes that fall, then emerged this past season as the best defensive tackle on a Vikings team that also featured expensive former Pro Bowlers Jonathan Allen and Javon Hargrave. Redmond recorded six sacks, 12 total TFLs, and five batted passes in an excellent 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n

Now the Vikings appear to be hoping to recreate that success story. They’re signing standout Canadian Football League DT Jaylon Hutchings to a futures deal, according to John Hodge of 3DownNation<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Hutchings recorded 8 sacks and 39 total tackles for the Calgary Stampeders across 17 games this past season. He was named to the All-CFL team and was the highest-graded defensive player in the entire league by Pro Football Focus at 90.7. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple years ago, the Vikings signed a defensive tackle who had gone undrafted out of college and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-393374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}