{"id":374076,"date":"2025-09-17T03:32:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/374076\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T03:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:32:26","slug":"vikings-to-re-sign-rb-cam-akers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/374076\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings To Re-Sign RB Cam Akers"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a third straight year, Cam Akers<\/a> is joining the Vikings. The frequent Kevin O\u2019Connell charge is heading back to Minnesota on a practice squad deal, KPRC2\u2019s Aaron Wilson reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>O\u2019Connell, who coached Akers from 2020-21 as Rams OC, traded for the former second-round pick in 2023 and \u201924. After failing to make the Saints\u2019 53-man roster, Akers is rejoining the Vikings.<\/p>\n

The Vikings ended Akers\u2019 strange Rams stay in September 2023 by trading a conditional 2026 seventh-round pick for him<\/a>. That did not end up conveying due to Akers\u2019 second Achilles tear. Despite that injury\u2019s impact on running backs, Akers again drew Vikings interest in 2024. Months after signing with the Texans, Akers ended up back in Minnesota in a deal involving a swap of 2026 Day 3 picks<\/a>. This transaction will be simpler, but Akers\u2019 recent past points to having earned trust from this particular coaching staff.<\/p>\n

Both O\u2019Connell and OC Wes Phillips were on Los Angeles\u2019 staff when the team drafted Akers in the 2020 second round. Although Akers and Sean McVay did not see eye-to-eye following the Florida State alum\u2019s first Achilles tear (July 2021), he has fans in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Last season, Akers usurped Ty Chandler<\/a> as Aaron Jones<\/a>\u2018 top backup. Adding onto his early-season Texans work, Akers finished with 444 rushing yards on 104 carries last season. Despite a November 2023 Achilles tear, he suited up for 18 games last year.<\/p>\n

Chandler remains under contract, having helped the Vikes defeat the Bears in Week 1 as O\u2019Connell instructed him to run a fourth-quarter kickoff out of the end zone to ensure Chicago could not use the two-minute warning timeout to its advantage, but landed on IR before Week 2<\/a>. O\u2019Connell said Jones is unlikely to suit up next week due to a hamstring injury<\/a>, creating this need. The team does, however, have Zavier Scott<\/a> in place as an active-roster option. The former UDFA out of Maine, however, has played in one career game and has yet to handle an NFL handoff. Akers would make more sense as a Mason backup, which would bring a role reprisal.<\/p>\n

Losing Jones deals a blow to O\u2019Connell\u2019s offense, but Akers\u2019 experience would stand to soften it. Although the retooling Saints did not deem Akers \u2014 who caught on after a minicamp tryout \u2014 worthy of a roster spot<\/a>, it will be interesting to see if the Vikes elevate him from their practice squad for Week 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a third straight year, Cam Akers is joining the Vikings. The frequent Kevin O\u2019Connell charge is heading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[8761,7,1014,58,2444,2611,259,6,424,3571],"class_list":{"0":"post-374076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-cam-akers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-los-angeles","11":"tag-los-angeles-rams","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-losangelesrams","14":"tag-minnesota-vikings","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-rams","17":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115217533776417252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374076","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=374076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}