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Vikings officially sign QB Jordan Ta’amu, waive OLB Curtis Weaver

The Vikings have started making roster moves

The Vikings announced that they have officially signed QB Jordan Ta’amu. In turn, they waived OLB Curtis Weaver.

A standout at Boise State, Weaver was a fifth-round pick of the Miami Dolphins in 2020. He was waived shortly after and played for the Cleveland Browns. He only appeared in one game across two seasons for the Browns accruing just one tackle.

Weaver was a long shot to make the roster with so many talented players ahead of him and the move wasn’t a surprise.

Ta’amu being signed so late in camp says that the Vikings might not be playing Nick Mullens in the preseason finale, as a lot of players won’t be playing in the finale.

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Vikings state of the roster: Edge rusher

The Minnesota Vikings traded Za’Darius Smith and signed Marcus Davenport to replace him. Will the production be the same in 2023?

The 2023 season is inching closer and closer by the day and we here at Vikings Wire are previewing the season from every angle. Today, we continue profiling the Minnesota Vikings roster on the defensive side of the football.

We are currently writing player profiles on each Viking on the roster with projections for what their 2023 season could look like. How things look projecting forward is where the real intrigue lies.

Leading up to training camp, we will be looking at each position from a more in-depth perspective. Today, we will be looking at the edge rushers.

59 days until Browns season opener: 5 players to wear 59 in Cleveland

We have officially left the 60s behind and broken into the 50s.

We continue our march towards Week One of the NFL season as we have left the 60s behind and now only have 59 days remaining. The Browns are also only nine days from the start of training camp on July 22. In total, there have been 21 different players to wear the number 59 for the Cleveland Browns.

It was first worn by Horace Gillom from 1947 until 1951. The most recent player to wear it for the Browns was veteran offensive lineman Joe Haeg who was released earlier this off-season. The trip down memory lane continues as we look back at five players who have suited up for Cleveland wearing the number 59.

Vikings 90-man roster player profile: OLB Curtis Weaver

The former Boise State Bronco has bounced around since being drafted. Can he earn a roster spot with the Vikings.

Welcome to the beginning of our 2023 season preview content!

Over the next few weeks, we will be looking at each player on the roster in-depth with backgrounds and how they currently project forward on the Minnesota Vikings roster.

What is the best-case scenario? What is the worst-case scenario? What should we expect from them during the preseason and beyond? We will break all of that down here.

As a staff, all of us at Vikings Wire ranked the entire 90-man roster 1-90 and will be releasing player profiles in reverse order.

Vikings sign DE Curtis Weaver to futures deal, lose OL Kyle Hinton to Falcons

The Vikings added an edge rusher to a futures deal while losing an offensive lineman

During the offseason, teams sign players to futures contracts for the offseason program. The Minnesota Vikings have been securing plenty of talent for their offseason program and added one more by signing former Boise State defensive end Curtis Weaver.

A former fifth-round draft pick of the Miami Dolphins, Weaver was a star edge rusher at Boise State but hasn’t been able to put it together in the National Football League. He has played in one game and it came in 2021 with the Cleveland Browns.

Along with signing Weaver, the Vikings lost offensive lineman Kyle Hinton who signed a futures contract with the Atlanta Falcons. They gave him a $100,000 signing bonus to join the Falcons even though the Vikings did try to sign him.

The addition of Weaver brings the total number of futures contracts signed by the Vikings up to seven with the first six having signed on Monday.

Browns place RB Jerome Ford on IR, release Curtis Weaver from practice squad

The Browns have made a couple of roster moves

The Cleveland Browns have made a handful of personnel moves. First, they added defensive end Sam Kamara to the practice squad yesterday, and now have placed running back Jerome Ford on Injured Reserve and released defensive end Curtis Weaver from the practice squad.

Ford had been handling kick return duties for the Browns up to this point, as running back D’Ernest Johnson then filled in after he went down against the Falcons. This also means the Browns have an open roster spot as Ford heads to the IR. Keep your eyes peeled for more movement along the Cleveland 53-man roster.

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Browns bring Curtis Weaver back to practice squad, add another

The #Browns have added two players to their practice squad, including a familiar face.

After a week where the Cleveland Browns signed two players off of their practice squad in Jordan Kunaszyk and Isaac Rochell, a few positions opened up. Today, they welcomed back a familiar face in pass rusher Curtis Weaver, signing him to the practice squad. Additionally, they added Jermaine Carter to the practice squad as well.

Weaver is well-known, as he has spent the past two seasons prior and all of training camp with the Browns. Carter, however, is a new name. A former fifth round pick of the Carolina Panthers, Carter also spent time with the Kansas City Chiefs. After Kunaszyk went to the active roster (due to the loss of Anthony Walker Jr.), the Browns have allotted another linebacker behind him on the practice squad.

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Browns sign C Jon Toth, place DE Curtis Weaver on IR

Toth has been on the Jets and Eagles practice squads over the last three years

A few days after working out several offensive linemen, the Browns have signed free agent center Jon Toth.

Toth joins the Browns after spending the 2019 season on the practice squads with the Philadelphia Eagles and New York Jets, where he finished the season. He entered the NFL as an undrafted rookie from Kentucky following the 2017 NFL Draft and has spent most of his time with the Eagles. The 26-year-old Toth has yet to be on an active NFL roster during any of his three NFL seasons.

In order to make room for Toth on the active roster, the team quickly moved Curtis Weaver to injured reserve. Weaver was claimed off waivers from Miami earlier this week. The Dolphins waived the fifth-round rookie with injury designation in hopes of getting Weaver to their own injured reserve but the Browns claimed him instead. His rookie season is now over.

Report: Rams tried to claim rookie DE Curtis Weaver off waivers

The Rams tried to claim the 2020 fifth-round pick, but Cleveland was higher on the waiver list.

The Rams have expressed confidence in their edge rushers this offseason after adding Leonard Floyd and Terrell Lewis to a relatively unproven group that lost Dante Fowler Jr., but the team appears to be seeking help at outside linebacker.

According to Field Yates of ESPN, the Rams attempted to claim Curtis Weaver, who was waived by the Dolphins this week and quickly claimed by the Browns. Cleveland was higher on the waiver priority and was awarded Weaver, but the Rams had interest in the rookie pass rusher.

It was a surprise that Miami cut Weaver so early in the process after spending a fifth-round pick on him in April. Teams don’t have to trim their rosters to 53 players for another couple of weeks, but the Dolphins didn’t feel Weaver was making enough of an impact in camp.

As of now, the Rams will start Floyd and Samson Ebukam on the edge, with Ogbonnia Okoronkwo and Lewis likely mixing in as situational edge rushers. They have decent depth at the position, but what they lack is top-end talent.

Weaver wouldn’t have changed that, but he would’ve provided the Rams with another developmental piece who could not only contribute as a rookie, but also down the line if Ebukam and Floyd leave in free agency next year.

Should the sunk cost of a pair of recent draft picks worry Dolphins?

Should the sunk cost of a pair of recent draft picks worry Dolphins?

The Miami Dolphins’ rebuilding effort is just over 18 months old. This team is, in the grand scheme of things, still it its infancy. But despite the relative newness of everything that the Dolphins are undertaking with Chris Grier and Brian Flores at the helm, there are mulligans this team probably wishes it had already. One is the handling to the Minkah Fitzpatrick saga, although at the end of the day Fitzpatrick was a bad attitude and clearly thought he knew better than his coaches. So be it.

But Miami has an NFL Draft trend developing too — not the kind that you want, either.

For the second consecutive season, the Miami Dolphins will see a member of their rookie class fail to make it to the end of the season on the roster with the team. The Dolphins cut rookie DE/LB Curtis Weaver on Monday afternoon after it was discovered he’d suffered an injury and yesterday we learned he was claimed off the waiver wire by the Cleveland Browns. Weaver, who was a 5th-round pick in April’s draft, will not see a single snap for the Dolphins.

2019 held a similar fate for 2019 6th-round pick Isaiah Prince, who at least had the chance to play in a few games for Miami last season. Prince played 82 total snaps for the Dolphins before the team had seen enough and cut him in December of 2019.

Is this a troubling trend for Miami? The team only made 6 picks in the 2019 NFL Draft, nearly half as many as they made this past April. Can they afford to be coming up completely empty handed with some of these picks?

No one can. But, given the law of averages, literally everyone does. There is so much volatility in the back half of any NFL Draft and the expectations for 5th- and 6th-round draft picks should be a few years on the roster, tops. Sure there are exceptions to the rule. Miami just happened to see themselves draw unfortunate results on two picks outside the top-175 in Prince and Weaver. But also bear in mind this is a two-way street and Miami got WR Preston Williams and CB Nik Needham for no draft pick at all.

Ideally, Miami’s roster would still have their 2019 6th-round pick and their 2020 5th-round pick on it. But Miami apparently saw enough in both to know these weren’t players that needed to be highly coveted.