{"id":34811,"date":"2022-06-03T08:21:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T08:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/vikings-waive-kenny-willekes-with-injury-designation\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T08:21:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T08:21:22","slug":"vikings-waive-kenny-willekes-with-injury-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/vikings-waive-kenny-willekes-with-injury-designation\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings waive Kenny Willekes with injury designation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-2929329\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t<!-- .entry-header -->&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"index-post-thumbnail with-featured-embed\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Vikings signed defensive lineman Jonathan Bullard on Thursday, so they had to make a corresponding move.  They waived defensive lineman Kenny Willekes with an injury designation to make room for Bullard on the 90-player roster.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings made Willekes a seventh-round choice in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Willekes, 24, played six games last season.  He saw action on 202 defensive snaps and 27 on special teams.<\/p>\n<p>He made 2.5 sacks, seven quarterback hits and 18 tackles.<\/p>\n<p>Willekes will revert to the Vikings&#8217; injured reserve if he clears waivers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t<!-- .entry-footer -->&#13;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; Getty Images The Vikings signed defensive lineman Jonathan Bullard on Thursday, so they had to make a corresponding move. They waived defensive lineman Kenny Willekes with an injury designation to make room for Bullard on the 90-player roster. The Vikings made Willekes a seventh-round choice in 2020. Willekes, 24, played six games &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/vikings-waive-kenny-willekes-with-injury-designation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vikings waive Kenny Willekes with injury designation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/06\/GettyImages-1234952799-e1654214154520.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}