Vikings Inactives For Week 16

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn The longest-tenured Minnesota Viking, tight end Jim Kleinsasser, has decided to retire at the end of the season, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Kleinsasser, who would have become a free agent in the offseason, has played 13 years with the Vikings, starting 129 games and catching 192 passes for 1,688 yards. Known more for his excellent blocking than...

Minnesota Vikings Running Back Adrian Peterson tore his ACL and MCL in the 3rd Quarter of the team's Week 16 win over the Redskins. Peterson will reportedly postpone his ACL reconstruction surgery until after his MCL heals, which will prolong the recovery process. Because Peterson suffered the injury so late in the year, his status for the start of the 2012 season is in jeopardy...

With Indianapolis winning its last two games, the Vikings have been put into a better position to get the No. 1 pick in the upcoming NFL draft.

Jim Kleinsasser, a 13-year veteran with the Minnesota Vikings, has decided to retire from the NFL after this season.

On the Vikings first drive of the third quarter, the worst possible thing for Minnesota happened, as Adrian Peterson suffered an absolutely brutal leg injury -- there is zero chance he'll return for the game against Washington. As our Redskins Rapid Reporter John Keim points out, Peterson was carted off from the field and has actually already been ruled out. Peterson took a handoff...

Joe Webb has made a career so far of entering games when the starting quarterback is injured -- or making a spot start himself -- and impressing people enough for them to say he’s a legit NFL starting quarterback. Now, it seems as if he’s impressed his coach enough for Leslie Frazier to wonder if Webb might be the team’s quarterback of the future. "Some of the things he does...

The NFL still seems awfully intent on moving a team to Los Angeles, but it sounds like that team won’t be the Minnesota Vikings. That’s the word from Sports Illustrated’s Peter King, who reported on NBC’s Football Night in America that the Vikings and Minnesota officials are close to a deal that would keep the team where it’s always been. The Vikings have been trying to build...

An MRI confirmed that Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee against the Washington Redskins on Sunday, the team announced. Peterson went down with the injury during the opening minutes of the third quarter when he was hit in the left leg by Redskins safety DeJon Gomes as he burst through a hole, his left knee bending inwards...

Vikes RB Adrian Peterson suffered a devastating knee injury early in the third quarter against the Washington Redskins.  I’m no doctor of kneeology, but I’m pretty sure Peterson suffered a couple of torn ligaments in his hinge, which is pretty bad when you make a living with your legs.  As if that wasn’t bad enough, it looks as though the cart he was driven off...

LANDOVER, Md. (AP) -- Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson injured his left knee, and Christian Ponder suffered a concussion on consecutive plays Saturday against the Washington Redskins.