{"id":438073,"date":"2026-09-16T20:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438073\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T20:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:58:21","slug":"vikings-place-jordan-mason-on-ir-sign-deejay-dallas-to-53-man-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438073\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings place Jordan Mason on IR, sign DeeJay Dallas to 53-man roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vikings will not have one of their key contributors at running back for at least the next four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Kevin O\u2019Connell said in his Wednesday press conference that Jordan Mason is being placed on injured reserve due to a thumb fracture.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connell noted Mason has already undergone a procedure to repair the injury and the team does not anticipate him being out longer than the four-week IR window.<\/p>\n<p>Mason had 59 yards on 15 carries with a touchdown in the season-opening victory over the Packers.<\/p>\n<p>As a corresponding move, the team is signing DeeJay Dallas to the 53-man roster off of its practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, veteran back Jerome Ford has been signed to the practice squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vikings will not have one of their key contributors at running back for at least the next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-438073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}