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Vikings Release Depth Chart
The Vikings have released their official unofficial (or is that unofficial official?) depth chart ahead of Friday’s pre-season tilt with the Rams. Nothing really surprising here - Ryan Cook is listed ahead of Marcus Johnson at RT and Jim Kleinsasser is the top TE, but neither of those is earth-shattering. Despite rumors to the contrary, Anthony Herrera has not moved ahead of Artis Hicks at RG, nor would it have been fair for that to happen given Hicks being moved to LT to replace Bryant McKinnie earlier in camp, and Herrera slotting into Hicks’s position hence getting more time there. Here’s the full depth-chart via Access Vikings:
Offense
WR: 19 Bobby Wade 18 Sidney Rice 16 Cortez Hankton 15 Martin Nance 86 Todd Lowber
LT: 74 Bryant McKinnie 75 Chase Johnson 65 Adam O’Connor
LG: 76 Steve Hutchinson 63 Brian Daniels 61 Josh Day
C: 78 Matt Birk 66 Norm Katnik 60 Kyle Cook
RG: 79 Artis Hicks 64 Anthony Herrera 68 Seppo Evwaraye 67 (Dan Mozes) — Mozes has a torn ACL and will miss the season.
RT: 62 Ryan Cook 72 Marcus Johnson 73 Jimmy Martin
TE: 40 Jim Kleinsasser 81 Visanthe Shiancoe 45 Richard Owens 84 Stephen Spach 87 Braden Jones
WR: 82 Troy Williamson 14 Aundrae Allison 11 Jason Carter 89 Chandler Williams 13 Justin Surrency 12 (Billy McMullen)
QB: 7 Tarvaris Jackson 9 Brooks Bollinger 2 Drew Henson 4 Tyler Thigpen
RB: 29 Chester Taylor 28 Adrian Peterson 30 Mewelde Moore 22 Artose Pinner 35 Ciatrick Fason 34 Wendell Mathis
FB: 49 Tony Richardson 83 Jeff Dugan 38 Naufahu Tahi
Defense
LE: 95 Kenechi Udeze 98 Darrion Scott 92 Jayme Mitchell
UT: 93 Kevin Williams 97 Spencer Johnson 65 Joe Bradley
NT: 94 Pat Williams 69 Howard Green 68 Conrad Bolston 71 Alex Guerrero
RE: 91 Ray Edwards 90 Khreem Smith 96 Brian Robison 99 (Erasmus James)
SLB: 51 Ben Leber 55 Jason Glenn 57 Rufus Alexander 58 David Herron
MLB: 56 E.J. Henderson 54 Dontarrious Thomas 48 John Kerr
WLB: 52 Chad Greenway 59 Heath Farwell 50 Vinny Ciurciu
LCB: 26 Antoine Winfield 31 Marcus McCauley 41 Charles Gordon 39 Jerron Wishom
RCB: 23 Cedric Griffin 36 Dovonte Edwards 27 Ronyell Whitaker 37 Mike Hawkins 43 Chad Johnson
SS: 42 Darren Sharper 21 Mike Doss 20 Greg Blue
FS: 24 Dwight Smith 25 Tank Williams 32 Patrick Body
Special teams
P: 5 Chris Kluwe 3 Alex Reyes
K: 8 Ryan Longwell
LS: 46 Cullen Loeffler 45 Richard Owens
H: 5 Chris Kluwe
KR: 19 Bobby Wade 82 Troy Williamson 14 Aundrae Allison 34 Wendell Mathis 41 Charles Gordon
PR: 30 Mewelde Moore 19 Bobby Wade 11 Jason Carter 14 Aundrae Allison 41 Charles Gordon
By the way, KFAN.com includes in their Training Camp Guide a very handy “Bottom Line” section which lists the entire roster, and speculates as to who is in line to make the final 53 and who falls below the cut-line. Right now, according to the experts over there, back-up center Norm Katnik would be the last man to make the team, and such semi-notables as Billy McMullen, Ronyell Whitaker and Ciatrick Fason would be cut. This is of course a fluid situation.
One last bit of business…the team made a roster move today, waiving injured OL Dan Mozes (nice knowing you Moz), and adding WR Paris Hamilton to the squad. Hamilton was around in mini-camp then got cut, but with the preponderance of injures in the receiver corps, has been reacquired.
