{"id":110568,"date":"2025-08-26T05:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/110568\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T05:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:41:07","slug":"vikings-trade-mekhi-blackmon-to-colts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/110568\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings Trade Mekhi Blackmon to Colts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAGAN, Minn. \u2014 The Vikings on Monday announced they have traded cornerback Mekhi Blackmon to the Indianapolis Colts in exchange for a sixth-round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is subject to Blackmon passing a physical.<\/p>\n<p>Blackmon joined Minnesota as a third-round pick (102nd overall) in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in 15 games as a rookie and made three starts, recording 41 tackles, three for loss and an interception. Blackmon suffered a season-ending ACL injury at the start of the 2024 Vikings Training Camp.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as NFL teams are reducing 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 Monday announced they have traded cornerback Mekhi Blackmon to the Indianapolis Colts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[22158,28931,22159,349,99],"class_list":["post-110568","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\/110568","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=110568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}