Levi Drake Rodriguez, a seventh-round selection in 2024, took a step forward in Season 2 and appeared in 16 games after seeing action in just two as a rookie. He added a spark for the Vikings on defense, as well as special teams.<\/p>\n
Taki Taimani also joined the Vikings as a UDFA in 2024 but appeared in just two games during his second season.<\/p>\n
The Vikings drafted Ingram-Dawkins in the fifth round (139th overall) and utilized him on special teams and defense. He notched his first career sack against Cleveland, taking down rookie QB Dillon Gabriel for a loss of 6 to help the Vikings defeat the Browns in Week 5.<\/p>\n
Last but not least, enter Elijah Williams, whom the Vikings signed as an undrafted rookie out of the HBCU Morgan State University. Williams didn’t get much playing time during his debut season, but he certainly impressed coaches during training camp and the preseason, demonstrating athleticism and a passion for football, and is a good player to keep an eye on moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Levi Drake Rodriguez, a seventh-round selection in 2024, took a step forward in Season 2 and appeared in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2073],"tags":[55167,7,38851,1824,9085,23284,233,259,2529,1025,1219,6,1732,1998,234],"class_list":["post-691595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-vikings","tag-elijah-williams","tag-football","tag-jalen-redmond","tag-javon-hargrave","tag-jonathan-allen","tag-levi-drake-rodriguez","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-news-index","tag-news-team","tag-nfl","tag-taki-taimani","tag-tyrion-ingram-dawkins","tag-vikings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115928480552022245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691595","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=691595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}