A numbers game and more tryouts
April 30th, 2008 – 12:58 PM by Judd ZulgadThe Vikings officially have 85 players on their roster. This includes the five players they selected in last weekend’s draft and the 16 undrafted free agents with whom they agreed to terms. All of these players have been assigned jersey numbers, although things are certainly subject to change.
Drafted players
25 — Tyrell Johnson, safety, second round
4 — John David Booty, quarterback, fifth round
98 — Letroy Guion, defensive tackle, fifth round
65 — John Sullivan, center, sixth round
11 — Jaymar Johnson, wide receiver, sixth round
Undrafted players
39 — Husain Abdullah, safety, Washington State
61 — Martail Burnett, defensive end, Utah
66 — Leger Douzable, defensive tackle, Central Florida
35 — Marcus Griffin, safety, Texas
3 — Steven Hauschka, kicker, N.C. State
50 — Erin Henderson, linebacker, Maryland
13 — Nate Jones, wide receiver, Texas
36 — Travis Key, cornerback, Michigan State
49 – J Leman, linebacker, Illinois
68 — Tim Mattran, center, Stanford
60 — Drew Radovich, tackle, USC
82 — Darius Reynaud, wide receiver, West Virginia
33 — Brandon Sumrall, cornerback, Southern Mississippi
30 — Marcus Walker, cornerback, Oklahoma
6 — Kyle Wright, quarterback, Miami (Fla.)
34 — Albert Young, running back, Iowa
Free agents (plus Jared Allen)
69 — Jared Allen, defensive end
87 — Bernard Berrian, wide receiver
27 — Michael Boulware, safety
12 — Gus Frerotte, quarterback
43 — Maurice Hicks, running back
55 — Derrick Pope, linebacker
22 — Benny Sapp, cornerback
44 — Thomas Tapeh, fullback
20 — Madieu Williams, safety
97 — Ellis Wyms, defensive tackle
Tryouts: This just passed along by Seifert. Outside Linebacker Brannon Carter from the University of Northern Iowa will be at Winter Park for this weekend’s rookie camp. Carter is among a group of players who will be in attendance on a tryout basis and have not been signed to contracts. Carter was the Defensive Player of the Year in the Gateway Conference (DI-AA) in 2007.
The Wisconsin-Whitewater student paper reports that linebacker AJ Raebel also will get a tryout this weekend. Raebel had 5.5 sacks and a team-leading 111 tackles for the NCAA Division III champs in 2007.
73 Responses to "A numbers game and more tryouts"
1st
Boo. 
BOOTY FOUR!
Did someone say (write) ‘numbers’?
Back just in time for a new topic - Judd’s back to work!
Judd pulled a Buster and posted the first paragraph twice….
Judd - do you get paid by the word? lol
now it’s fixed - WTF?
same topic, different day
WE WANT BOOTY!
WE WANT BOOTY!
i’ll leave now
Oops. It was a cut and paste issue.
You sure it wasn’t a copy and paste issue?
Speaking of cut-and-paste: Don’t know if this was posted before, but Bill Simmons offered this hypothetical in his chat yesterday:
“Bill Simmons: By the way, I was thinking about it… can you imagine if Favre returned in Week 6 and signed with the Vikings? Would that be the most polarizing story in the history of sports? ESPN could just have 24-hour programming centered around sportswriters angrily arguing about whether he stabbed Green Bay in the back or not. Also, I think the entire state of Wisconsin would go into crisis mode … work productivity would drop, alcoholism would rise, it would be complete chaos. ”
How would Vikings fans react? Hmmm…
P.S.: Had to love this rejoinder from a Minnesotan…
“Jack (St. Paul): I think the entire state of Wisconsin would go into crisis mode … work productivity would drop, alcoholism would rise, it would be complete chaos. You ever been to Wisconsin, not sure it can get much worse”
Lets hope if Reynaud sticks that his number wont have any remaining Butterfingers related issues!!!!!
That, too.
SOUTH:
That’s a good one!
Who is that Richard Simmons?
Judd = durrrrrrr
FIRE CHILDRESS NOW !!!!!!!!!
frome the last blog queen….thanks!
i think my wife might be correct then. it said if you OPTED for direct deposit we’ll get it first. it didn’t say anything about the rapid refund. h&r block confirmed as well. we should get a direct deposit. i’ll believe it when i see it.
surprised there aren’t more OL’s coming in
DRE:
Allen got #69! ! !
You don’t sound like you care!
Albert Young #34
Rickey Young #34
Looks like we are pulling out some “semi- retired” numbers.
44 - Chuck Foreman
50 - Jeff Siemon
30 - Bill Brown
60 - Roy Winston
55 - Scott Studwell
20 - Darrin Nelson
11 - Joe Kapp
You young pups better live up to the worthiness of these numbers!
Grant - 20 = Moe Williams as well.
my bad kenny. i should be a bit more excited than what i am showing…….
JARED ALLEN GOT 69 YYYYYEEEEEEESSSSSS!
Draftdaddy.com says we also signed undrafted OG Pedro Sosa from Rutgers
#11 Fan:
Great! ! !
We need more latinos for the off season softball team!
43 — Maurice Hicks, running backs
Apparently “running backs” Mo Hicks, like Hershel Walker, has a multiple personality disorder too.
Coach Grant, I’ve noticed this, too, the semi-retired numbers coming out. I was a bit concerned when AD got Ahmad Rashad’s number last year, but I guess that worked out okay. I’m proud to wear the AD jersey.
(By the way, it’s authentic, and cost me just $31. Gotta love E-Bay.)
vs: be careful of ebay…..i got jobbed on my daunte culpepper 3 years ago.
MDVikes-PS3. Blu-ray won the format war and PS3 plays blu-ray movies.
STATEPURPLE:
So Hicks is Full, Half, Quarter, and Hunch?
Smoots….
You gorgot corner, nickel and dime, dummy!
Right Wis -
Madieu Williams #20
Moe Williams #20
John David Booty #4
? (No prior Booty)
Does J Leman have a first name?
DJ Dozier?
IM Hipp?
Only Hunch if we went to Notre Dame…
He’s real name is IHOP, but that’s taken up by Chili’s play call sheet…
The Mrs. thinks Jared Allen has two first names and I think Booty has an extra name, so we could work out a trade.
J = Jeremy I believe.
Who’s real name is IHOP?
Booty? ? ?
I’m gettin missus cheeseweasel an Allen #69 jersey soon as they come on ebay fer 30 bucks. Maybe a Booty too. Where are the blog trolls?
Question for everybody…
Who is gonna be the long snapper of the future? Jerad Allen thinks he’s the best in the league but I don’t think the team would want to risk injury on punts. Besides we have Loeffler and he’s pretty good.
Under the bridge.
lol at king…
In the EastBay catalog (different from ebay) you can order a genuine jersey with YOUR name on it. How ’bout:
CHEESEWEASEL 1
Prolly won’t see too many like it.
Hunch Ilkin?
You don’t think Booty’s No. 4 is a nod to Favray, do you?
By the way: Booty’s Wonderlic score was a 14, which makes T-Jack look like a genius. Let’s hope JDB has football smarts…
under the 35W bridge hopefully
wonderlic smonderlic. eff that jeff damn test.
FARVE TO VIKINGS?
BUTLER STIRRING THE BRETT POT
Posted by Mike Florio on April 30, 2008, 4:06 p.m.
Former Packers safety Leroy Butler is convinced that former Packers quarterback Brett Favre wants to play.
And Butler thinks it will only be a matter of time before Brett makes it known that he’s ready to return.
So says Butler in an interview with WTMJ in Milwaukee.
Butler speculates that, once Brett says he wants to play, the Packers likely won’t welcome him back. So then the question becomes whether he gets traded to another team.
That’s where Butler’s theory falls apart. He mentions the other NFC North teams — Chicago, Minnesota, Detroit — as the possible destinations for Favre.
There’s no way that the Packers would trade him to any of those teams. In fact, it’s possible that the Packers won’t trade him to anyone.
But Brett still has some leverage in this regard. He can show up at pretty much any time before the late November/early December deadline for coming off the reserve/retired list and say, “I’m here. Deal with me.”
If the Packers decide they don’t want him, they’ll either have to trade him or release him. And if they release him before the trade deadline, he becomes an unrestricted free agent, and can play for any team.
brett won’t be happy ’till he gets to play with Moss
If we had Farve now, we would win the Superbowl.
You’re damn right we would win the Superbowl. Provided the younger players continue to develop and barring any major injuries. But it ain’t gonna happen.
Not biting on the latest Brett Craze…
But this numbers question is a concern. I’d like to suggest the Vike training staff develop a series of Special Teamer numbers for pre-season. (Why would you want to waste perfectly good regular series numbers on a guy who only comes in for a half dozen plays a game?).
The series I’m thinking of runs from 100 to 109 and is represented numerically by:
‘00
‘01
‘02
‘03 etc.
Remember-this is only for pre-season games. But there’s lots of weird Vike fans who will want to line up to have first crack at purchasing jerseys with ltd run numbers. (I mean who wouldn’t want a ‘08 jersey if only to move the asterisk to a decimal point?)
If the Vike can get limited Leaque Office approval we can expect every other team to follow. And since we at AV thought of this first can Kev&JuggZy take out the patent?
Mud - I went with the PS3 for same reason as King.
VS - nice review on GTA. Even though it’s not only about killing the hookers, I hope you still can. I s’pose I could find this out, but do you need a driving console to play, or is the regular control sufficient (I haven’t played any of the previous ones)?
And now to keep it football related…
FIRE BUSTER NOW!!!!!
If they made your uniform number the same as your Wonderlick score,it, it,
it would help explain stuff.
Leger Douzable. Well, either he does or he doesn’t.
Reminds me of the story of the visiting preacher who came to town to give his sermon on the Widows Mite.
After the sermon one of the young male parishioners came forward to thank the preacher. ‘There’s only one widow in this town, Reverend, and there ain’t much question that she does’
I heard somewhere that Blu Ray may be going under?
J Leman is IHOP
or perhaps it is T-Jack, for his IHOP jump pass.
Disco - nope. HD DVD will be going the way of the Betamax.
Is Marcus Griffin Cedric Griffin’s brother?
Kato - no, but Marcus’ older brother does play in the NFL, was drafted in first round last year….
Dallas Sartz is #54.
Maybe Kendrick Allen is refusing to wear a number at all, because Jared got 69.
Michael Griffin - Titans….
Who’s Kendrick Allen?
He’s part of Frazier’s MCDL (Massive Confusion Defensive Like): The Williams Brothers inside; the Allen Brothers Outside. (Actually, Kendrick was signed March 30 and mostly plays tackle.)
Maybe they should give dre a tryout. I heard he was a star at the reunion football game.
Everyone must be stuck in Twin Cities traffic now.
I am on a quest.
To find your sanity?
On a quest to say something smart? Cuz’ so far you been on a tour of mindless mumblement.
Kato
it will be tough to find something he’s never had
Go Vikings!!!!! ….. win ……
First of all, don’t get angry. Don’t holler at me. I realize many of you still are hung over from NFL draft weekend, but try to think clearly for a moment.
This is not an attempt to ruin the party or to throw a wet blanket on everyone’s good time. But somebody has to do this. So take a deep breath.
The Vikings favored to win the NFC North? I agree. In fact, they should be prohibitive favorites to take the division title. But …
Maybe — maybe — everyone should slow down a little bit. As the euphoria from the Jared Allen trade dissipates, the memories of draft weekend fade and the majority of Vikings fans sober up, it’s worth noting that few teams go from screwy underachievers to great champions overnight.
Remember: These are still the Vikings we’re talking about. This is a team that went 8-8 despite the presence of seven Pro Bowlers last season. History tells us that whatever can go wrong, likely will go wrong.
Here comes the yelling. I can hear it. Settle down. I understand that after two disappointing seasons, area fans are giddy at the prospect of success. Everyone has a right to be. Just be careful.
Hey, we’re all agreed that Allen should be a great addition to an already good defense. But the personnel on the other side of the football, which is where most of the problems occurred last season, looks eerily familiar. And the head coach, Brad Childress, still has to establish himself as a winner in this league.
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part about the draft was trading those picks for Allen. Otherwise, there wasn’t much help. To me, it was shocking that they passed on quarterback Brian Brohm of Louisville. Everyone knew the Packers were crazy about the guy. And they are looking at him as a potential heir to Brett Favre.
If Brohm is good enough to be a potential heir to Favre, he’s good enough to compete with Tarvaris Jackson. Instead, the Vikings opted for depth at safety with their first pick.
Also note that the same semi-leaky offensive line is back, but with a longer rap sheet. In a draft filled with quality offensive tackles, the Vikings came up empty. So now we’re hearing the names “Artis Hicks” and “Marcus Robinson” again. Yikes. Maybe they can get Toniu Fonoti back and put him in there.
One thing we’ve learned about Jackson is that he doesn’t stand up to a pounding particularly well. After getting nailed a couple of times, he invariably winds up on the sideline for a week or two. What’s going to be different this time around? Beats me.
Bernard Berrian will help the receiving corps. But that unit needed an awful lot of help. Will he be enough to stop defenses from stacking the line to halt the run? He’s good, but that’s asking a lot.
And then there’s Childress, who wasn’t nearly so stubborn or erratic in his second year. During his first season, he was like the new kid on the block in a tough neighborhood. He apparently felt he had to go around and bite everyone on the leg to show he wasn’t afraid.
Last year, he calmed down. Adjusted on the fly better. However, the team still went 8-8 with all those Pro Bowl players. Plus, the season finale in Denver was a joke. The team appeared lethargic and uninterested.
In Year Three, this is his quarterback, his system and his team. Everyone should see the real Brad Childress, whatever that is, now that he has his pieces in place. That should be interesting.
So, as you can see, there are a lot of variables. Just looking up and down the roster, the Vikings should be pretty good. But just looking up and down the roster doesn’t cut it.
The Vikings made some good moves so far this offseason. Now the team has to go out and do it. That’s always been the tricky part.
Vikings fans should expect the best, be prepared for the worst and never make the mistake of letting their sense of self-worth get wrapped up in the team.
OK, I’m finished. Go ahead and yelp if you want.
Tom Powers can be reached at tpowers@pioneerpress.com.
BRING BACK TONI FONOTI ! ! !
they selected the safety because he was the highest rated player they had on their board, above Brohm, otherwise Brohm wouldve been the pick
Couple of guys you haven’t heard of were drafted in today’s CFL draft…
Keith Shologan, a defensive lineman at Central Florida. The six-foot-two, 290-pounder won’t be at training camp next month because he signed with the NFL’s San Diego Chargers last weekend. Shologan is also a four-time Canadian heavyweight wrestling champion.
Tackle Justin Sorensen is six-foot-seven, 327-pounds and returns to South Carolina this fall for his senior season. He’s expected to garner NFL interest in 2009.
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