Ex-Vikings Kicker Auditions for Titans Roster
The Tennessee Titans are scouring the open market for extraneous kicking solutions, and former Minnesota Vikings Greg Joseph could be part of the plan.
One former Minnesota Vikings kicker, with a lengthy resume, hopes to latch onto the Titans’ roster before too long, a reunion from six years ago.
A member of the Vikings’ roster for three seasons, Joseph could parley his audition in Tennessee to an active roster or practice squad spot sometime this week.
Former Vikings Kicker Greg Joseph Gets a Look in Tennessee
The 31-year-old is looking for work.
Titans Work Out Greg Joseph
Joseph, with a stroke of luck, could become the Titans’ next kicker or at least a fallback option.
Titans Wire‘s Mark Mihalko wrote Monday, “The Tennessee Titans are back in Nashville and will hit the field on Wednesday to start preparations for their Week 5 matchup against the Arizona Cardinals, but that didn’t stop them from updating their rolodex and working out multiple players on Tuesday.”
“Tennessee worked out a whopping 12 players on Tuesday, including Elijah Cooks, Zane Gonzalez, Dustin Hopkins, Greg Joseph, Marshall Lang, Lance McCutcheon, Brenden Rice, Colton Spengler, Dorian Thompson-Robinson, Zach Triner, Ben Woolridge, and Matthew Wright.”
Joseph must outclass Gonzalez and Hopkins, but there’s a shot for his reemergence in the big leagues.
Joey Slye’s Troubles in Tennessee
The Titans are down bad. Let’s just get that out there.
Cam Ward is performing like a raw rookie quarterback — Vikings fans know a little something about that — the team is winless, and kicker Joey Slye is doing the club no favors.
Slye missed two field goals last weekend, and in a hotly contested division rivalry game against the Houston Texans, a poor team doesn’t have room for mistakes. Well, Slye provided the mistakes — on top of the rest of Tennessee’s mistakes.
Accordingly, head coach Brian Callahan is pondering a new kicker, which may be Joseph when it’s all said and done.
Greg Joseph’s Extensive NFL Resume
Joseph has been around the block. And then he’s gone around the block again after that. He’s played for nearly one-third of all NFL teams in the last seven years and even made a pit stop in — you guessed it — Tennessee six years ago.
Here’s Joseph’s long-as-boa-constrictor resume since turning pro in 2018:
Miami Dolphins (2018)
Cleveland Browns (2018)
Carolina Panthers (2019)
Tennessee Titans (2019)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2020)
Minnesota Vikings (2021–2023)
Green Bay Packers (2024)
Detroit Lions (2024)
New York Giants (2024)
Washington Commanders (2024)
New York Jets (2024)
San Francisco 49ers (2025)
If you ask a shopper at the grocery store about her favorite football team, there’s a decent chance that Joseph once kicked for that team.
Life before Will Reichard
Minnesota actually had a decent career in the Twin Cities.
Fans trusted him to reliably deliver on clutch kicks, and outside of a notable — and huge — gaffe against the Arizona Cardinals early in the 2021 campaign, Joseph consistently nailed game-winning field goals.
The problem? Throughout his three seasons in purple, Joseph typically ranked in the NFL’s bottom bowl per field goal kicker accuracy overall, and his extra points often caused the fan base to close their eyes after touchdowns.
Minnesota finally put its foot down during the 2024 offseason, opting not to re-sign Joseph and drafting Alabama’s Will Reichard, who is a baby-faced killer with the uprights in his sights.
SI.com on Joey Slye
Chris Wassel of SI.com sized up Slye from a fantasy football standpoint this week and opined: “It is far from Slye’s fault that Tennessee is 0-4 but their shutout at the hands of the Houston Texans does not happen without those two missed field goals.”
“It is why Slye made our fantasy football losers list. Losing points from the kicking position is almost as bad as the defense. Tennessee gets Arizona as the middle game of their three game road trip. At least it should be warm and dry. However, Arizona comes off a heartbreaking home loss and will want to capitalize against the 0-4 Titans. Slye is not a bad kicker but he is projected 21st among active kickers by consensus.”
Slye may have one more week to figure out his struggles before Tennessee makes a change.
Wassell added, “Slye has also attempted a league-high 14 kicks which is troublesome. His accuracy career-wise is 80.9%. The last time he exceeded that mark was 2022 in Washington. Maybe sitting the Tennessee offense and Slye is a solid option for Week 5.”
Joseph turned 31 two months ago.
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