Another week, another elevation of a Vikings running back who has spent plenty of time on, and off, the team\u2019s roster over the past three seasons.<\/p>\n
Cam Akers will be in uniform again on Sunday, less than two weeks after joining the team for the third time.<\/p>\n
Last week, he participated in seven offensive snaps. He had five carries for 19 yards, and he was targeted once in the passing game.<\/p>\n
The need for Akers arose after starter Aaron Jones landed on IR with a hamstring injury. Akers was the No. 3 running back against the Bengals, behind Jordan Mason (who gained 116 yards on 16 carries) and rookie Zavier Scott.<\/p>\n
The Vikings face the Steelers on Sunday morning in Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another week, another elevation of a Vikings running back who has spent plenty of time on, and off,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-186291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186291","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=186291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}