Minnesota Vikings waive former third-round draft selection

The Minnesota Vikings announced on Friday that the team has decided to part ways with defensive lineman Scott Crichton.

On the same day in which the Minnesota Vikings made a move to maintain the depth on their defensive line through the 2018 season, the team also made the decision on Friday to waive defensive lineman Scott Crichton.

Crichton was selected in the third-round of the 2014 NFL Draft out of Oregon State. The 6-foot-3, 273 pound defensive lineman missed the entire 2016 season after being placed on injured reserve before Minnesota’s first game of the year.

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Since 2014, Crichton has played in 21 games for the Vikings and has a total of seven tackles in his career.

The defensive lineman was considered a bit of a project when Minnesota drafted him and Friday’s outcome provides an answer that he was never able to progress into the player the Vikings were hoping for. 

With the addition of free-agent Datone Jones this offseason and the emergence of other players on the defensive line like Danielle Hunter, there just was not enough room for Crichton to have any sort of role with the Vikings’. He might get an opportunity with another team, but Crichton’s NFL career could actually be done for based on his lack of production in Minnesota.

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With the move, the Vikings now have a total of 12 defensive linemen on their current roster.