{"id":286925,"date":"2025-08-14T08:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/286925\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T08:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:03:14","slug":"vikings-sign-a-pair-of-defenders-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/286925\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings Sign A Pair of Defenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After the moves they made yesterday, the Minnesota Vikings had a couple of spots open on their 90-man roster, and they filled those spots on Wednesday morning with a pair of new defenders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The team has announced the signings of outside linebacker Cam Gill and linebacker Max Tooley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is Tooley\u2019s second stint with the Vikings. He went undrafted out of BYU in the 2024 NFL Draft and signed as an undrafted free agent with the Houston Texans. He was waived after training camp and signed with their practice squad, but was waived again a few weeks later. The Vikings then signed him to their practice squad, though the team brought him back on a futures contract, they waived him again in late July before bringing him back today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Gill has been in the league for a few years. He played his college football at Wagner, garnering Northeast Conference Defensive Player of the Year honors in both 2018 and 2019. He went undrafted in the 2020 NFL Draft, and signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He made the Bucs\u2019 roster out of training camp and over the course of four seasons in Tampa played in 40 games, mostly on special teams. He missed the entire 2022 season after suffering a Lisfranc injury in the preseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In 2024, Gill signed with the Carolina Panthers, but was again placed on injured reserve and released a few weeks later. He then signed with the Detroit Lions\u2019 practice squad, but in mid-October the Panthers signed him back, and he appeared in 10 games for the Panthers last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For his career, Gill has a combined 51 tackles and 2.5 quarterback sacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Those are your roster moves for this Wednesday, ladies and gentlemen. Perhaps not earth-shattering moves, but moves that teams will make throughout the course of the preseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the moves they made yesterday, the Minnesota Vikings had a couple of spots open on their 90-man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[7,233,259,52778,1312,2529,6,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-286925","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-minnesota-vikings-2025-season","12":"tag-minnesota-vikings-news","13":"tag-minnesotavikings","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115026080950531654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286925","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=286925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}