Tag: Marcus Davenport

Vikings Week 3 injury report has six names

Marcus Davenport and Christian Darrisaw highlight first injury report

The Minnesota Vikings have released their first injury report for their week three matchup against the Los Angeles Chargers and it includes six names.

  • C Garrett Bradbury (back)-Did not practice
  • OLB Marcus Davenport (ankle)-Did not practice
  • LT Christian Darrisaw (ankle)-Limited
  • ILB Jordan Hicks (shin)-Limited
  • S Josh Metellus (shoulder)-Limited
  • WR Jalen Nailor (hamstring)-Limited

When looking at the injury report, it’s concerning that Davenport didn’t practice at all after playing in four snaps on Thursday night. That number alone is concerning, but it’s frustrating to see him already have this much of a setback.

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Darrisaw and Metellus both suffered their injuries on Thursday night against the Philadelphia Eagles. Now, Darrisaw re-injured himself and Metellus hurt himself on the third play of the game.

Nailor dealt with hamstring injuries throughout training camp and seeing them come back is frustrating. Hicks is a new one that we didn’t previously know about, but it’s something to monitor moving forward.

The injury report will evolve over the next few days and we will keep you updated.

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Vikings injury roundup after 34-28 loss vs. Eagles

The Vikings have some injuries they are dealing with coming out of Thursday night’s loss

Not only did the Minnesota Vikings lose 34-28 to the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday night, they also had some unfortunate injury luck.

Yes, every team has injuries happen to them, but the Vikings dealt with some frustrating ones. Both left tackle Christian Darrisaw and outside linebacker Marcus Davenport were active, but they played a combined one snap on the night.

It isn’t just those two players, as the Vikings had multiple players injured during the game. Here is the latest update on all of the Vikings injuries.

Vikings vs. Eagles inactives: Darrisaw, Davenport will play

The Vikings will be close to 100% against the Eagles

The inactives have been released for Thursday night’s game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Philadelphia Eagles and there was some good news for the purple and gold.

Both left tackle Christian Darrisaw and outside linebacker Marcus Davenport are active and will play after both were listed as questionable with ankle injuries.

The list of Vikings inactive list is as follows.

  • QB Jaren Hall (3rd quarterback)
  • OLB Andre Carter
  • DL Jaquelin Roy
  • C Garrett Bradbury
  • TE Nick Muse

The Eagles have the following players inactive.

  • RB Kenneth Gainwell
  • CB James Bradberry
  • S Reed Blankenship
  • G Tyler Steen
  • DT Moro Ojomo
  • TE Albert Okwuegbunam
  • QB Tanner McKee (3rd quarterback)

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Final Vikings week 2 injury report vs. Eagles

One Viking was ruled out with two more listed as questionable

The Minnesota Vikings have released their final injury report for the week two matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles and it isn’t too surprising.

  • C Garrett Bradbury (back)-Out
  • LT Christian Darrisaw (ankle)-Questionable
  • OLB Marcus Davenport (ankle)-Questionable

This doesn’t come as any surprise for the Vikings. Bradbury was dealing with the same back injury at the end of last season. They seem to be taking it easy with Bradbury and that’s a smart play.

Darrisaw should be good to go on Thursday night. He played for three quarters on his injured ankle against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and looked pretty good in doing so.

Davenport is still the biggest wild card. He injured his ankle last Thursday during practice and sat in week one after working out pregame. The Vikings could utilize his size, length and athleticism that they could use against Jalen Hurts.

The Vikings kick off against the Eagles on Thursday night at 7:15 central time.

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Vikings injury report: Trenches are hurting

Trench players fill the initial injury report

The injury report for the Minnesota Vikings wasn’t going to stay clean forever. In week one, it got more murky than we expected.

  • Christian Darrisaw (ankle) was limited in practice on Monday.
  • Marcus Davenport (ankle) was limited in practice on Monday.
  • Garrett Bradbury (back) did not practice on Monday.

Darrisaw injured his ankle during the first quarter of Sunday’s game. He missed six plays getting attended to in the medical tent, but returned with no issues the rest of the way.

Davenport injured his ankle in practice on Thursday afternoon and didn’t dress against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. He did workout pregame, but that wasn’t enough for him to dress.

Bradbury was injured in the first quarter and never returned. He missed multiple games at the end of 2022 with a back injury and it’s not great to see it happen again.

With a short week this week, seeing how these injuries progress is more important than ever.

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Minnesota Vikings announce inactives list for season opener

The Minnesota Vikings will be without an important part to their defense today.

The Minnesota Vikings will be without one of their free agent signings for the season opener.

Outside linebacker Marcus Davenport, who appeared on the injury report late this week, will be inactive for their game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Davenport’s injury does not appear to be serious. Instead, his inactive listing might be a byproduct of the timing between suffering the injury and the start of the season.

Undrafted rookie Andre Carter will also be inactive, meaning Benton Whitley, who the Vikings called up from the practice squad, will play.

Other inactives include tight end Nick Muse and Jaquelin Roy. Neither of these inactives is a surprise with the depth at both positions.

The same can be said for offensive tackle David Quessenberry, who the Vikings signed after the preseason.

The team’s final inactive is quarterback Jaren Hall.

Hall’s inactive comes with the designated third quarterback tag. This tag allows Hall to enter the game if quarterbacks Kirk Cousins and Nick Mullens are injured.

Vikings adjust practice squad, elevate 2 players for Sunday’s game

With the elevation of Benton Whitley, could this be bad news for Marcus Davenport?

Going into Sunday’s game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Minnesota Vikings made multiple moves. The team announced that they signed running back Myles Gaskin to the practice squad and released wide receiver Lucky Jackson.

They also elevated both Gaskin and outside linebacker Benton Whitley going into Sunday’s game. Both will be eligible to play on Sunday.

Gaskin was released from the roster on Friday afternoon in a procedural move. That would ensure the Vikings didn’t have to guarantee his entire salary for the 2023 season and could go week by week.

Jackson had a good preseason and training camp after spending the spring with the D.C. Defenders. With Gaskin likely going back to the 53-man roster, Jackson may end up back on the practice squad.

Whitley was elevated along with Gaskin. That likely says something about Marcus Davenport’s availability, as he was added to the injury report on Friday with an ankle injury. His status will be made official on Sunday morning.

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Vikings defender added to final injury report

Not a great sign for the Vikings heading into Sunday

The Minnesota Vikings had two names on the injury report on Thursday and luckily enough saw them both come off of it on the final injury report on Friday. Unfortunately, it also saw the addition of outside linebacker Marcus Davenport, who is listed as questionable.

According to ESPN’s Kevin Seifert, Davenport injured his ankle during practice on Thursday and was limited on Friday because of it. Head coach Kevin O’Connell described it as a “little bit of a tweak.”

The way Brian Flores projects to run his defense has Davenport as a key cog. He and Danielle Hunter will be moved around all across the defensive line to take advantage of different weaknesses with different pressure packages.

If Davenport can’t go, Patrick Jones II will likely get most of his snaps.

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Saints’ 10 heaviest cap hits in 2023 include 2 players no longer with team

The New Orleans Saints’ heaviest salary cap hits in 2023 include two players no longer with the team. Sometimes that’s the cost of doing business:

Good news, everyone: the New Orleans Saints only have $29.2 million in dead money on the books this year. With the 2023 season kicking off in just a few days it’s the perfect time to take stock of the Saints’ accounting and how it compares to other teams around the league.

Remember, dead money is the amount leftover from restructuring contracts with players who are no longer on the team by converting salaries into signing bonuses and spreading out the cap hits to make dollars stretch a little further. But sometimes (well, often for New Orleans) when players are released from their contracts or leave in free agency, those signing bonus payouts accelerate onto the current-year cap, meaning the Saints are paying for players not on their roster. It isn’t ideal, but sometimes it’s the cost of doing business.

And right now the Saints are carrying just over $29.2 million in dead money — a figure that ranks 12th around the league, and which makes up about 12.9% of their salary cap commitments this season. That’s a far cry from the 21.2% and 26.5% dead money charges the Saints had to work around the last two years. Folks, that’s progress.

But where is all that dead money coming from? And where do the payments rank among the team’s top salary cap hits? More than half of this year’s dead money comes from expired contracts with David Onyemata ($10.1 million) and Marcus Davenport ($7.6 million), both of whom left in free agency. Smaller hits are due for Malcolm Jenkins ($3.9 million), Wil Lutz ($2.4 million), and Deonte Harty ($1.4 million), plus an assortment of minor charges from other players.

Will things get better on this front next year? That’s hard to say. Players whose expiring deals will leave behind dead money in 2024 include Andrus Peat ($13.6 million) and Jameis Winston ($10.6 million), as well as Tre’Quan Smith Smith ($1 million) and Carl Granderson ($80,000). It’s a moot point if any of them re-sign with New Orleans, but that’s the cost of letting them walk in free agency. The Saints will need to make a decision on Michael Thomas, too, but that’s a much more complicated situation (and thus a conversation for another day).

With all that said: here are the Saints’ top 10 cap hits in 2023.

ESPN projects Cameron Jordan to lead Saints with his lowest sacks total since 2011

ESPN projects Cameron Jordan to lead the Saints defense in sacks again, but with his lowest single-season total since his 2011 rookie year:

Sports science is becoming a bigger factor in covering the NFL every day, with predictive models quickly carving out a niche. ESPN Analytics’ Seth Walder shared his projections for the top 50 pass rushers in the league this year, following the same model he’s used to some success in past seasons.

It’s not a great outlook for the New Orleans Saints. Despite having invested multiple contract extensions and early-round draft picks in their defensive line, just one player is projected to rank inside the top-50: defensive end Cameron Jordan.

That in itself isn’t much of a surprise. Jordan has led the team in sacks more often than not since his 2011 rookie year. But ESPN’s model forecasts just 7.4 sacks for Jordan in 2023, which both leads the team and ranks 22nd around the league. Jordan won the official Saints sacks record last season from Rickey Jackson, but pre-1982 charting at Pro Football Reference still awards Jackson with the unofficial franchise record (123). If this is an accurate prediction for Jordan, he’d come up half a sack shy of Jackson’s unofficial total.

Now, in real life the NFL counts half-sacks, so Jordan would either have 7.5 (if we round up) or 7.0 (which would be rounding down, of course). That latter number would be the move here, and it’s a dire picture. Jordan hasn’t had fewer than 7.5 sacks in a single season since he entered the league. For that number to set the pace for his teammates would be worrisome to say the least.

But it matches what we’ve seen so far. Carl Granderson peaked last year with 5.5 sacks as a part-time starter at defensive end. Payton Turner only has 3.0 sacks through his first two years as a pro. Tanoh Kpassagnon, Jordan’s primary backup, only had 2.0 sacks last season which lines up with his career average. Rookie draft pick Isaiah Foskey is looking like a typical slow-to-develop Saints defensive end.

Is this model legit? Last year it predicted Jordan and Marcus Davenport would have 6.5 and 6.4 sacks, respectively; they posted 8.5 and 0.5 each. A year earlier it called for 8.3 sacks for Jordan (he had 7.5), so it’s made more hits than misses.

Some other interesting names jump out from the 2023 projections. Davenport is expected to produce 6.8 sacks for the Minnesota Vikings this fall, while former Saints defensive end Trey Hendrickson is lined up for 9.5 sacks (he had just 8.0 sacks last year after bagging a career-high 14.5 of them the year before). One of the players picked immediately after Turner in 2021, Baltimore Ravens edge rusher Odafe Oweh, is predicted to bag 6.2 sacks. He has 8.0 sacks through his first two seasons.

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