{"id":244284,"date":"2026-04-24T04:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244284\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:23:10","slug":"vikings-add-florida-defensive-tackle-caleb-banks-at-no-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244284\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings add Florida defensive tackle Caleb Banks at No. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vikings have added some young talent to their defensive line.<\/p>\n<p>With the 18th overall pick in the 2026 NFL draft, the Vikings have selected Florida defensive tackle Caleb Banks.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Banks spent two years at Louisville before transferring and playing three years at Florida. He\u2019s 6-foot-6, 327 pounds and undeniably talented, although his history of injuries is a concern. His most recent injury was a broken bone in his foot at the Scouting Combine, but he is expected to be ready before training camp.<\/p>\n<p>A quarterback competition between Kyler Murray and J.J. McCarthy will be the most-watched story in Vikings camp, but Minnesota fans will also be keeping a close eye on Banks, whom they hope will make a big impact on defense as a rookie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vikings have added some young talent to their defensive line. With the 18th overall pick in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-244284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}