{"id":280559,"date":"2025-08-11T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/280559\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T22:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:02:11","slug":"vikings-claim-michael-gonzalez-via-waivers-place-matt-nelson-on-injured-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/280559\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings Claim Michael Gonzalez Via Waivers; Place Matt Nelson on Injured Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAGAN, Minn. \u2014 The Vikings on Monday claimed guard Michael Gonzalez via waivers and placed tackle Matt Nelson on Injured Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez entered the NFL in May as an undrafted rookie with the Atlanta Falcons. He was placed on waivers Sunday. Gonzalez did not play in Atlanta&#8217;s preseason opener, which was suspended Friday with 14:50 remaining in the game after Detroit&#8217;s Morice Norris suffered an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez played 51 games over the course of four seasons at Louisville. He started 32 games, including all 26 Cardinals games from 2023-24. The North Carolina native finished his career by garnering an All-ACC Honorable Mention in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson signed with Minnesota on July 31 but suffered an injury during Minnesota&#8217;s Aug. 4 Night Practice. The Iowa product started 14 of 43 games with the Lions from 2020-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAGAN, Minn. \u2014 The Vikings on Monday claimed guard Michael Gonzalez via waivers and placed tackle Matt Nelson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[7,233,259,2529,1025,2818,1219,6,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-280559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-vikings","11":"tag-minnesotavikings","12":"tag-news-index","13":"tag-news-press-release","14":"tag-news-team","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115012393051219953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}