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Jerick McKinnon tears ACL Discount Dru Samia Jersey , out for season Amidst all of the excitement and news happening Saturday on roster cutdown day, the news came out that the Minnesota Vikings’ opponent this coming Sunday has lost a pretty big piece of their offense and a name familiar to fans of the Vikings.Our friends over at Niners Nation, among others, are reporting that running back Jerick McKinnon has torn an ACL and will miss the 2018 season.McKinnon spent his first four seasons with the Vikings after the team made him a third-round pick in the 2014 NFL Draft. ning back and served as both a backup to Adrian Peterson, as well as part of a tandem with Matt Asiata when Peterson missed time in both 2014 and 2016. After Dalvin Cook was injured last season, McKinnon teamed with Latavius Murray in the Vikings’ backfield Super Bowl Dru Samia Jersey , and this past offseason was given a huge four-year, $30 million contract to be the primary back in San Francisco.McKinnon had missed a portion of camp prior to Saturday with a calf injury. The reports say that McKinnon’s injury was a non-contact injury suffered on the final play of practice on Saturday. With McKinnon on the shelf, it looks like the Niners’ running game next Sunday will be a combination of Matt Breida and the newly-signed Alfred Morris.It’s a tough break for an old friend, and hopefully McKinnon will be able to make a full recovery and be able to make an impact with the Niners in 2019. We passed along the news yesterday that the Minnesota Vikings would be bringing in the CFL’s Most Outstanding Player, quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell, for a workout on Wednesday. It turns out that the also brought in another productive player from the Great White North.Per Aaron Wilson, who covers the NFL for the Houston Chronicle Dru Samia Jersey nfl draft , the Vikings worked out cornerback Winston Rose, who played this past season for the British Columbia Lions. Rose, as Wilson points out, was tied for the CFL lead in interceptions this past season with five.Rose went undrafted out of New Mexico State in 2016, and played in the CFL in both 2017 (for the Ottawa Redblacks) and in 2018. According to Wilson, no signing is imminent, but his workout was reportedly pretty impressive.As things stand now Ben Gedeon Jersey , the Vikings don’t have any empty spots on the practice squad, so if they were to sign either of the CFL players they worked out today, they would have to make some sort of roster move. If anything like that happens, we will pass the news along to you as soon as we have it.