All the Vikings Injuries | at Giants | Week 1
The Minnesota Vikings open the 2024 regular season at the New York Giants on Sunday at noon CST, the first regular season game of the year. The Vikings have +8000 Super Bowl in 2024, and New York checks in at +15000 entering Week 1.
All the Vikings Injuries | at Giants | Week 1
This week, Minnesota’s injury report remained quite clean despite a sloo of devastating summer injuries.
Overall, the Vikings are somewhat healthy to start the season, a tendency that isn’t necessarily widespread around the league. We’ll take it. All the “other” Vikings injuries happened before this week.
These are each team’s injured players one day before Week 1.
Vikings Injury Report
——— None ———
Jordan Addison (wide receiver, ankle) and Jalen Nailor (wide receiver, ankle) were limited in practice this week but carry no injury designation to Week 1.
Long-term Injuries
Mekhi Blackmon, CB (Knee, Out for season)
Jeremy Flax, OL (Out for season)
T.J. Hockenson, TE (Knee, Out at least 4 games)
Jordan Kunaszyk, LB (Out for season)
J.J. McCarthy, QB (Knee, Out for season)
Gabriel Murphy, OLB (Out at least 4 games)
Dalton Risner, OG (Back, Out at least 4 games)
Najee Thompson, CB (Knee, Out for season)
Giants Injury Report
——— None ———
Dane Belton (safety, back), Drew Lock (quarterback, abdomen), Micah McFadden (linebacker, groin), Gunner Olszewski (wide receiver, groin), and Brian Burns (EDGE, ankle) were listed as limited participants at points this week, but all enter Sunday with no injury designation — like Addison and Nailor.
The Vikings are favored by 1.5 points over the Giants in Week 1. New York has lost four of its last five games against Minnesota, with the one win in the 2022 postseason.
Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold has started 21 career games at MetLife Stadium, the venue of his former employer, the New York Jets. The Giants are expected to win 6.5 games this season, the same forecast attached by sportsbooks to the Vikings.
The Vikings are 2-5 (.286) in Week 1 road games since 2010.
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Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his daily YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The show features guests, analysis, and opinion on all things related to the purple team, with 4-7 episodes per week. His MIN obsession dates back to 1996. Listed guilty pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, ‘The Sopranos,’ Basset Hounds, and The Doors (the band). He follows the NBA as closely as the NFL.
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