Mike Needham - Pro Football Rumors

The Viking announced today that they’ve begun the process of trimming their roster by cutting 14 players. Like all NFL teams, they’ll need to get down to 53 before Saturday afternoon.

The following players were cut by Minnesota today:

WR Cayleb Jones
WR Korey Robertson
WR Jake Wieneke
QB Peter Pujals
LB Antwione Williams
G Kaleb Jones
G Kareem Are
T Dieugot Joseph
CB Trevon Mathis
RB Kobe McCray
FB Luke McNitt
LB Mike Needham
C J.P. Quinn
LB Brett Taylor

Jones, notably, was not only arrested for assault this week, but is now suspended for the first four games of the season after violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy, tweets Courtney Cronin of ESPN.com.

Minor NFL Transactions: 6/20/18

June 20th, 2018 at 8:18pm CST by Sam Robinson

Here are Wednesday’s minor moves.

Kansas City Chiefs

Released from IR: RB Akeem Hunt

Minnesota Vikings

Signed: LB Mike Needham
Waived/Injured: DE Hercules Mata’afa

Minor NFL Transactions: 5/14/18

May 14th, 2018 at 9:10pm CST by Zachary Links

Today’s minor moves (so far):

Arizona Cardinals

Signed: DT Siupeli Anau, WR C.J. Duncan, LB Airius Moore, OL Greg Pyke
Waived: CB Elijah Battle, LB Mike Needham, OL Austin Olsen, WR Jonah Trinnaman

Baltimore Ravens

Signed: DE Da’Sean Downey

Buffalo Bills

Signed: FB Zach Olstad
Waived/Injured: RB Aaron Green

Carolina Panthers

Signed: WR Bug Howard, C Kyle Friend, T/G Quinterrius Eatmon, DE Karter Schult
Waived/Injured: CB Zack Sanchez

Chicago Bears

Signed: WR Matt Fleming, DB John Franklin, DB Tyrin Holloway, OL Jeremi Hall, OL Matt McCants
Waived: OL Travis Averill, OL Cameron Lee, LB Howard Jones, LB Nyles Morgan

Cincinnati Bengals

Signed: DT Chris Okoye, C Brand Lundblade, S Tyrice Beverette
Waived: LB Oni Omoile, TE Scott Orndoff, CB Robenson Therezie

Cleveland Browns

Signed DB Tigie Sankoh, QB Brogan Roback

Denver Broncos

Waived: NT Lowell Lotulelei (Lotulelei is retiring, per Nicki Jhabvala of The Athletic, on Twitter)

Detroit Lions

Signed: WR Deontez Alexander, TE Marcus Lucas, CB Josh Okonye
Waived: WR Kyle Lewis
Waived/Injured: TE Brandon Barnes

Houston Texans

Placed on Reserve-Retired list: K.J. Malone
Signed: T Kendell Calhoun, DE Nick Thurman
Waived: WR Montay Crockett
Waived/failure to disclose physical condition designation: DE Jalen Wilkerson

Indianapolis Colts

Signed: OT Jared Machorro
Waived: C Anthony Fabiano

Jacksonville Jaguars

Signed: TE Zach Conque, LB Manase Hungalu, OL Brandon Smith
Waived: OL Avery Gennesy

Los Angeles Rams

Signed: QB Luis Perez

New England Patriots

Signed: P Corey Bojorquez
Waived/NFI: WR Darren Andrews

New Orleans Saints

Signed: OT Michael Ola
Waived: LB Adam Bighill, OL Daronte Bouldin, S Rickey Jefferson, Bradley Sylve

Oakland Raiders

Signed: S Dallin Leavitt, LS Drew Scott

Philadelphia Eagles

Signed: WR/KR Tim Wilson

Pittsburgh Steelers

Signed: G/T R.J. Prince

Seattle Seahawks

Signed: TE Clayton Wilson

Washington Redskins

Signed: C Casey Dunn, LB Vontae Diggs, WR Darvin Kidsy
Waived: WR Mikah Holder, C Sean Welsh

Cardinals Sign 24 UDFAs

April 30th, 2018 at 3:14pm CST by Zachary Links

The Cardinals have signed enough undrafted free agents to fill a starting lineup. Of course, it’s likely that only a few will actually make Arizona’ final cut. The complete rundown of Arizona’s UDFA class is as follows:

CB Elijah Battle (West Virginia)
TE Alec Bloom (Connecticut)
LB Dennis Gardeck (Sioux Falls)
LB Frank Ginda (San Jose State)
OL Will House (Southern Nazarene)
S A.J. Howard (Appalachian State)
DE Alec James (Wisconsin)
QB Chad Kanoff (Princeton)
K Matt McCrane (Kansas State)
LB Mike Needham (Southern Utah)
CB Deatrick Nichols (South Florida)
DT Owen Obasuyi (Hampton)
OL Austin Olsen (Southern Illinois)
LB Matthew Oplinger (Yale)
S Jonathan Owens (Missouri Western)
FB Austin Ramesh (Wisconsin)
WR Trent Sherfield (Vanderbilt)
CB Tavierre Thomas (Ferris State)
WR Jalen Tolliver (Arkansas-Monticello)
WR Jonah Trinnaman (BYU)
S Zeke Turner (Washington)
TE Andrew Vollert (Weber State)
OL Brant Weiss (Toledo)
WR Corey Willis (Central Michigan)

The Cardinals also have six drafted rookies to account for, meaning that they presently have 99 players in total. The Cardinals will be laying off at least nine players in the coming days in order to sign the aforementioned UDFAs to contracts.

Kicker Phil Dawson inked a two-year, $6MM deal with the Cardinals last year, but the team could save $2.5MM with just $1MM in dead money by releasing him. In theory, McCrane could have an opportunity to unseat him, especially since he would represent a cheaper option. Last year, Dawson connected on 80% of his field goal tries, including 4-of-5 from 50+ yards. He also nailed the longest field goal try of his NFL career when he sank a 57-yard game winner against the Jaguars.