Minnesota Vikings at New York Giants: Final Injury Reports

The final injury reports of the week are out for both the Minnesota Vikings and the New York Giants ahead of this Sunday’s contest at MetLife Stadium. Let’s see which players have been given injury designations for this week, shall we?

Minnesota Vikings

• DL Javon Hargrave – OUT (thigh)
• TE Gavin Bartholomew* – QUESTIONABLE (back)
• RB Ty Chandler* – QUESTIONABLE (knee)
• OT Brian O’Neill – QUESTIONABLE (heel)

Hargrave is the only one who will definitely be sitting this one out. The Vikings also had Christian Darrisaw listed as “out” for this one, but shortly after that they placed him on injured reserve. Both Bartholomew and Chandler are in their 21-day windows to return to the active roster. The team has to make a decision on Chandler by 24 December, while Bartholomew’s window opened just a couple of days ago.

It’s worth noting that the Vikings have three open spots on the 53-man roster, as they haven’t made any moves yet to fill the spots that opened up when they placed Darrisaw, Jonathan Greenard, and Joshua Metellus on injured reserve. They’ll be filling those spots when they make their final moves of the week tomorrow afternoon, so we’ll be keeping an eye out for those.

New York Giants

• WR Beaux Collins – OUT (concussion/neck)
• OL Evan Neal – OUT (hamstring/neck)
• DL Rakeem Nunez-Roches – OUT (ankle)
• OLB Kayvon Thibodeaux – OUT (shoulder)
• OL Joshua Ezeudu – QUESTIONABLE (calf)
• LB Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles – QUESTIONABLE (illness)
• CB Art Green – QUESTIONABLE (illness/hamstring)
• CB Rico Payton – QUESTIONABLE (back)

It will be a fifth straight missed game for Thibodeaux, which will benefit a Vikings team that will definitely be without Darrisaw and could potentially be without O’Neill. Neal has not played a snap this season for the Giants and is in his window to return to the roster after being designated to return from injured reserve. If he does come back, it won’t be this week against the Vikings.

Those are the final injury reports for this week, folks. We’ll see what moves the Vikings make to round out the roster on Saturday afternoon before they depart for the East Coast.