{"id":107261,"date":"2025-08-24T19:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/107261\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T19:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:59:06","slug":"vikings-announce-roster-reductions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/107261\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings Announce Roster Reductions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAGAN, Minn. \u2014 The Vikings on Sunday announced 11 players have been waived or released during the first wave of roster reductions.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota announced the contracts of veteran QB Brett Rypien and OLB Cam Gill have been terminated.<\/p>\n<p>Rypien joined Minnesota before last season and led the scout team offense in 2024. The Vikings earlier Sunday announced they had <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vikings.com\/news\/carson-wentz-agree-to-terms-sam-howell-trade-eagles-quarterback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">agreed to terms with veteran QB Carson Wentz and traded backup Sam Howell<\/a>. Gill had joined the Vikings during training camp.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings also announced the following nine players have been waived:<\/p>\n<p>The moves place Minnesota&#8217;s current active roster at 79 players, including International Player Pathway participant Oscar Chapman.<\/p>\n<p>All NFL teams must reduce their rosters to 53 players by 3 p.m. (CT) Tuesday, Aug. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAGAN, Minn. \u2014 The Vikings on Sunday announced 11 players have been waived or released during the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[22158,28931,22159,349,99],"class_list":["post-107261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-news-index","tag-news-press-release","tag-news-team","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}