After a relatively healthy summer, the Minnesota Vikings are paying the piper, to an extent, early in the regular season.
As of Thursday evening, the Vikings have five players on injured reserve, five men on the Week 3 injury report, and two on the non-football-injury list.
Injuries Rapidly Catching Up with Vikings
And while the Vikings injuries aren’t unique or utterly grim — the New York Jets lost Aaron Rodgers for the year, Nick Chubb will be absent from the Cleveland Browns roster, and Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs tore his ACL on Thursday — the injury bug is accelerating.