Vikings Announce Roster Reductions

I guess only Logan Brown is a mild surprise, since he was ranked as a 3rd or 4th rounder on some boards. He was also given a pretty sizable contract as a UDFA. He was a 5-star recruit, so he'll likely end up on a practice squad somewhere.

MaroonBells wrote:
I guess only Logan Brown is a mild surprise, since he was ranked as a 3rd or 4th rounder on some boards. He was also given a pretty sizable contract as a UDFA. He was a 5-star recruit, so he'll likely end up on a practice squad somewhere.

You don't know if they waived Brown try to get him on the Vikings PS at this point.

Marginally surprised at Silas Brown, too.
He had a shot, I thought, at PS.

However, there are about 1,184 players being cut over this 3-4 day period...hard to say what our PS will look like.

Didn't expect him to make it, but Steward was actually one of the few CBs to make some plays in pre season and looked like he knew what he was doing. Not that it was difficult to standout within that CB group.

StickierBuns wrote:
Logan Brown was hyped before he ever took a snap in purple by the podcast brigade. Nothing to see there.

He never elevated beyond the 3rd string. When they signed him I thought he might challenge Rouse for the swing OT position, but it never was even close. Didn't live up to the hype.

StickierBuns wrote:
I wonder the fate of Mr. Joseph Huber? Practice squad?

Sounds like it.  He flashed until he didn't.  Another year of marinating on the PS could make him serviceable.

Clutch solution to Bengals' swing tackle problem shockingly hits the waiver wire

MaroonBells wrote:
Clutch solution to Bengals' swing tackle problem shockingly hits the waiver wire

Logan Brown...you had me at "goodbye"
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As if that all weren't enough to aid the Bengals' efforts, thanks to the Vikings' enviable depth and drafting ability, they're having to part ways with some promising prospects. That includes former Wisconsin and Kansas offensive tackle Logan Brown, per ESPN insider Adam Schefter.

Brown is a former 5-star recruit and was 247Sports' No. 1 tackle in the nation coming out of high school. Alas, injuries plagued his years at Wisconsin, before he was dismissed from the program for fighting at practice. He finally started for the Jayhawks this past season, earning PFF grades of 78.0 in pass blocking and 82.2 in run blocking.

Kansas OT Logan Brown is a player I’m becoming a big fan of.

The size, athletic tools, and production metrics are there, but injuries and inconsistency derailed his college career. Extreme upside. 

The only real issue is that Brown doesn't have a lot of snaps under his belt. In the 609 he played in 2024, though, he yielded zero sacks and only six hurries on 293 pass blocking snaps. His profile isn't dissimilar to the Bengals' current right tackle, Amarius Mims. He didn't play much at Georgia and was beset by injuries, but Mims looks like a high-floor starter entering Year 2.

Now I'm not going to sit here and pretend I've taken some deep dive on Vikings preseason all-22 film. All I'm saying is, Brown let up a mere three pressures on 76 pass blocking snaps. That ain't bad at all. He played right tackle in Weeks 1 and 3, and left tackle in Week 2. There's that swing tackle versatility we're looking for in Cincy! If he's a guard someday, as some suggest, so what? That's cool, too!

Look, I'm not one of those people who fawns over every fringe backup due to hit the waiver wire. I'm just surprised the Vikings didn't give Brown a little more run to grow in their program. Maybe it's a red flag that he didn't make the cut. I would still take a crack at him.

The Bengals really don't have a good swing tackle candidate right now. Cody Ford is more of a guard, and rookie Jalen Rivers is coming into his own at right guard. Not sure Rivers is capable of starting as a tackle at any point in his NFL career, but he could be a fine starter on the interior.

Given Cincinnati's reluctance to pay big money to a 30-year-old Trey Hendrickson, I'm not convinced that left tackle Orlando Brown Jr. will get a handsome payday when he's due to his free agency in 2027 ahead of his age-31 season.

Logan Brown at least offers a higher ceiling than the likes of Devin Cochran, Andrew Coker, and whomever else has a shot at sticking on the Bengals' 53. Again, I'm not a big dart board throw guy for UDFAs who may not stick anywhere but a practice squad for a few years, but Brown has a different feel to him. I'd love for him to get a shot in Cincinnati.

StickierBuns wrote:

But none of this matters, that's why I take this stuff with such a grain: his potential from college means little if you go undrafted and then get cut in the first round available. Failure to launch. Happens to many great athletes full of that dreaded 'potential'. Maybe the lightbulb goes on somewhere else, maybe next year, etc. but right now in this moment in time he sucks. And the odds are great that he will continue to do nothing. This isn't 'shocking'....how could it be coming in as an UDFA? But we are taking the internet, so there you go.

one mans trash is another mans treasure.... or vice versa.  we have a wake littered with potential that we wasted to much time and efforts on developing only to watch them never develop so hats off when they identify them early and cut their loses,  might be somebody else that sticks now and actually makes an impact some day.