Vikings coaches tracked the performance — distance, hangtime and direction — on every punt in practice and preseason games this summer between Jordan Berry and Ryan Wright.
On Thursday, the team released Berry, the eighth-year veteran and incumbent starter, and kept Wright, an undrafted rookie out of Tulane. For the third straight season, the Vikings will have a new punter and a new holder on field goals.
"We're charting every single punt," special teams coordinator Matt Daniels said this month. "So at the end of this thing, for a guy we decided to keep versus the guy we decide to cut, we have the statistics to show the why behind what we're doing what we're doing.