Vikings region CB Harrison Hand on COVID-19 reserve checklist

The Vikings on Tuesday placed Harrison Hand on the COVID-19 reserve record, the 2d straight day they put a cornerback on it.

Cameron Dantzler was placed on the list Monday. He then tweeted that he's utterly vaccinated and would return soon. He would deserve to have poor checks on consecutive days for that to take place.

It marks the 2nd time in two weeks that Hand has been on the checklist. He was placed on it Sept. 22 after which taken off it Sept. 24.

Hand overlooked video games Sept. 19 at Arizona and Sept. 26 in opposition t Seattle with a hamstring harm before returning to play 15 snaps on special groups in final Sunday's 14-7 loss to Cleveland. he is the backup nickelback to Mackensie Alexander.

Dantzler all started 10 of the 11 games he played remaining 12 months as a rookie earlier than becoming a reserve this season. After starter Bashaud Breeland turned into lost for the video game after six protective snaps towards the Browns, Dantzler performed the last seventy two and usually regarded first rate.

there has been speculation that Dantzler eventually could exchange Breeland within the lineup. via four games, Breeland is ranked No. 108 and ultimate via seasoned football center of attention amongst NFL cornerbacks.

"The largest thing for (Breeland) has been in the purple zone," mentioned Vikings teach Mike Zimmer. "There (have been) a few (different) instances when receivers had certain splits that he wasn't lined up within the appropriate place as well."

SMITH TO observe SQUAD

The Vikings on Tuesday signed protecting handle T.J. Smith to the observe squad.

The 6-foot-3, 303-pound Smith will supply depth in observe for the Vikings after nose handle Michael Pierce was misplaced in the third quarter towards the Browns with an elbow injury. Zimmer referred to after the video game that Pierce would have a magnetic resonance imaging exam, but he did not give any consequences of it when he final spoke to journalists on Monday.

Smith was undrafted in 2020 out of Arkansas, the place he had been the teammate of current Vikings defensive tackle Armon Watts from 2015-18. Smith then signed with the los angeles Chargers, and spent final 12 months on the observe squad and remained with the group unless being waived on Aug. 25.

Smith takes the place on the 16-man squad of extensive receiver Whop Philyor, who was launched Monday.

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Zimmer called the holding penalty in the end zone late in the second quarter Sunday by way of linebacker Eric Kendricks "ticky-tacky." The penalty gave the Browns a primary down after Baker Mayfield threw an incompletion on fourth down, and that they soon scored a touchdown. … Zimmer said after Sunday's online game that the Vikings, who're 1-three and have lost three video games by way of a combined complete of eleven features, have "received a really first rate team." Cornerback Patrick Peterson agreed asserting, 'I really do consider we've a extremely, definitely respectable team. … We should find a method to be clicking on all cylinders." … this is the 11th time Minnesota has begun 1-3. After the outdated 10 such begins, the simplest time the Vikings made the playoffs changed into in 2008, once they went 10-6 and gained the NFC North.