Brock Lesnar to sign with the Vikings – St. Paul Pioneer Press
The article gives no contract specifics. My guess is it’s your basic non-roster invitee deal, where he can be cut for nothing whenever they feel like.
Key Dates
08/14 – vs ARZ (live cut ins + tape delayed the next day on NFL Network)
08/20 – @ ATL (tape delayed the next day on NFL Network)
08/27 – vs SF (tape delayed the next day on NFL Network)
08/31 – All Rosters Cut To 65
09/02 – @ SEA (live cut ins + tape delayed the next day NFL Network)
09/05 – All Rosters Cut To 53
09/06 – Practice Squads formed (5 players per team)
(roster cut source: AtlantaFalcons.com)
Brock’s going to be used as DT. ESPN’s NFL Depth Chart parnter Ourlads’ Scouting Service, list these as the other DTs in camp (roughly in order)
Chris Hovan
Kevin Williams
Steve Martin
Billy Lyon
Jeff Womble
Spencer Johnson
Womble and Johnson are undrafted rookie free agents.
I believe the Vikings are running a 4-3, which means they’ll keep between 3 and 5 DTs.
His best shot? They can keep 5, obviously. Womble and Johnson don’t show a lot of future potential. No one ahead of him gets hurt, because it’ll favor taking someone who’s got more experience at the position; they need to be able to hide him for a year.
Brock’s said repeatedly he’s not doing the pratice squad thing, so it’s making the roster on 9/5 or moving on. My wild guess is he’ll either be cut early (for looking like too much of a project) or it’ll come down to the wire (as they try to figure out if they’ll have room on the 53 or if he can be convinced to stick on the practice squad.)
Womble’s already gone.
Yeah, Womble was released to make room for Lesnar.
More importantly… is there still time to get him into Madden? :)
I don’t think so…., I think that it’s too late to put Brock in, as Madden comes out in two weeks. Maybe when EA puts out Roster Updates online.
If Brock’s “not gonna do the practice squad thing,” then I don’t think he’s going to make the team. Unless, of course, they want to keep him around to play special teams. Watching him run downfield to bust up the wedge on kickoff returns would provide decent entertainment value, if nothing else.
Thanks for the depth chart update. So he’s up to 6 of 6. I think he’ll still have to move up two spots to have a reasonable shot, which means he’s got to beat out someone who was playing in the league.
Now that I rethink this, the actual best case scenerio is “Brock picks up things super fast, plays in a couple games, and makes the team on those merits.” It’s just not so likely.
It’s far more likely Brock backtracks on his “no practice squad” decision.
ESPN sure loved showing Brock footage last night.