The Minnesota Vikings cut ties with tight end Jake Bargas on August 16th, 2022, via summer roster cuts, and the North Carolina alumnus latched onto the Chicago Bears and Miami Dolphins thereafter.
The Miami Dolphins are 6-3 through nine weeks of the 2022 season, a half-game out of first place with the New York Jets in the AFC East behind the Buffalo Bills.
Another Tuesday has passed, so there are a handful more Vikings who have been released during the second round of cuts. Similar to the first article that covers this topic, I’ll be relying on PFR to help recall some of the small details about the players.
Dust off the Homer Simpson GIF because former Minnesota Vikings fullback Jake Bargas was released by the Chicago Bears three days after joining the franchise.
The Chicago Bears are forecasted to win 6.5 games in 2022, the same total as the Carolina Panthers, Detroit Lions, and Jacksonville Jaguars. And if they get to that mark, they’ll do so with a litany of former Minnesota Vikings players.
The sister-site to VikingsTerritory is PurplePTSD.com, and the guys and gals over there roll out the Minnesota Vikings analysis just as much as we do. Here is some of their top content from the last couple of days: 1 – Josh Frey revises his 53-man roster prediction after witnessing a couple of Vikings preseason games.
The Chicago Bears announced on Sunday they have signed FB Jake Bargas to the roster. In a corresponding move, WR David Moore was placed on injured reserve. Moore, 26, is a former seventh-round pick out of East Central by the Seahawks in 2017.
The Vikings and every other NFL team had to make their first roster cuts by the Tuesday afternoon deadline, going from 90 players down to 85. They'll cut down to 80 next Tuesday, then go down to 53 on roster cutdown day (August 30th).
After the 2022 NFL Draft, an event in which the Minnesota Vikings added 10 new players, the franchise made several moves to expand the roster to 90 players.
No backup for C.J. Ham on the 53 If the Minnesota Vikings are going to need a backup for Pro Bowl fullback C.J. Ham this season, it appears they’ll have to bring one up from the practice squad.