3 Vikings veterans who will be cut before Week 1 and why

No. 2 Vikings veteran in danger of being cut before Week 1: K Greg Joseph

Greg Joseph has been with Minnesota for two seasons but the pressure is on.

Last season, the kicker made 78 percent of his kicks, down from 86 percent the year before. He also missed six extra points, down to 87 percent in that measure from 90 percent in 2021. And that’s not all. His touchback percentage dipped to 60.7 percent from 80.9 percent.

Those numbers are cause for concern for the Vikings, especially because his missed extra points were costly at times.

Now he’s got to beat out Jack Podlesny, an undrafted free agent out of Georgia, who is reportedly performing well enough in training camp to have opened up a kicking competition.

Joseph was reliable from inside 50 years last year — when he wasn’t attempting extra points at least — and that reliability could save his job.

However. the last thing an NFL team wants to worry about is the kicker making extra points. Joseph has missed 10 over the last two seasons. If Podlesny can convince the team he’s more trustworthy, Joseph would be a simple cut.