Minnesota Vikings Place Casey Matthews On Injured Reserve

We're one practice into Training Camp for the Minnesota Vikings, and one of the team's players has already had their 2015 season come to an end.

Casey Matthews, who was a longshot to make the team at linebacker after signing with the team in the offseason, was placed on injured reserve this morning. He had a hip injury that Coach Mike Zimmer said came as a result of jumping over a hurdle during the offseason.

The team did not place the designation to return on Matthews, which means his season is already finished. Like we've said, he was a longshot to make the roster and signed a minimal deal, so from a personnel standpoint this really doesn't do much for the Vikings.

The bigger news from this, from a football perspective, is that it gives the Vikings an opening on the 90-man roster. No word yet as to where the team might look to fill the spot at this time, though I would suspect we'd hear something fairly quickly on that front.