In late August, the Minnesota Vikings will subtract players from the current 90-man roster to 53.
The Vikings’ roster is still huge for a few months — 90 players — and some players are in the mix whom you’ve never heard of. These are the notables.
It’s an annual process for all 32 teams, and deep undercover, all NFL squads have some talented players who the world doesn’t really know.
These are those players for the 2025 Vikings in alphabetical order — the best Vikings players on the current roster you know nothing about, at least not yet.
1. Tyler Batty (OLB)
Tyler Batty is a baddie.
A very old undrafted free agent — Batty is 26 — the BYU alumnus should be totally game-ready at such an advanced rookie age.
Minnesota has three prominent EDGE rushers on its depth chart: Jonathan Greenard, Andrew Van Ginkel, and Dallas Turner. Because there isn’t a veteran “fourth pass rusher,” Batty could be the guy. If not now for Batty at age 26 — when?
The Athletic‘s Alec Lewis recently wrote about Batty: “The fourth round went, then the fifth, then the sixth. Nobody understood why his name remained on the board. He produced in college. He nailed all of the measurables and testing exercises at the NFL Scouting Combine.”
“Despite Tyler’s high character and self-driven profile, 257 players were picked ahead of him. He remained an undrafted free agent for approximately 30 seconds. Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores and the team’s personnel department had identified him as a versatile player who would squeeze every droplet of potential out of his career.”
The guy will have a chip on his shoulder, too.
Lewis concluded, “The Vikings quickly made the call, and finally, as the sun fell behind the mountains and the pasture was tinged with bright pink, the family celebrated.”
It’s all setting up rather nicely for Batty.
2. Logan Brown (OT)
Like Batty, Brown probably should’ve been drafted five weeks ago. Some draft heads viewed him as a 4th-Rounder or so.
But he fell to undrafted free agency, and the Vikings pounced. Like Luiji Vilain in 2022, Ivan Pace Jr. in 2023, and Bo Richter or Dwight McGlothern in 2024, Brown is the “UDFA gem guy” in 2025.
All evidence suggests Brown will make the 53-man roster as a depth offensive tackle, especially with Christian Darrisaw’s injury recovery ongoing.
3. Joe Huber (OG)
Huber is the type of UDFA that Vikings fans would’ve pounded the table for in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, or 24. Yes, that long.
But because Minnesota now has Will Fries and Donovan Jackson in the house for starting OG duty, there’s not a loud Huber hype train. Perhaps there should be.
PurplePTSD‘s Kyle Joudry, who also contributes at VikingsTerritory, wrote about Huber last month: “As a freshman and sophomore, Joe Huber put in work with Cincinnati, picking up work in twenty games. He was thus a teammate of Ivan Pace Jr., one of the great UDFA success stories of recent memory. Huber then worked his way over to Wisconsin, playing in twenty-five games for the Big 10 program.”
“PFF assigned strong but not sizzling grades. Last season, Huber came in at 139th among 639 guards who were considered with a 68.7 grade. The pass blocking — a 76.2 grade — was a decent step ahead of his run blocking — a 66.4 grade.”
Huber might have the juice to stay with the Vikings as a depth guard.
Joudry added, “The pass-happy NFL will always be interested in employing guards who can keep a QB clean, but the basic truth is that Joe Huber needs to improve across the board.”
“In the past, Joe Huber has overcome some long odds to find success on the football field. Could something similar occur at the NFL level? No guarantee, of course, but the Vikings have signalled their belief in him within the contract and will be looking for him to make some noise throughout OTAs, mini camp, and training camp.”
4. Tim Jones (WR)
Listen, Jones will not set your world on fire as a pass-catcher. That’s not his jam.
However, with wide receiver Trent Sherfield no longer on the team — he bolted in free agency to the Denver Broncos — the Vikings need a special-teams replacement.
Special teams are Jones’ jam. Therefore, he could make the September roster as a WR6. Get to know him.
5. Ambry Thomas (CB)
A 3rd-Rounder from the 2021 NFL Draft, Thomas started, at times, for the 2023 San Francisco 49ers, a team that reached the Super Bowl.
His 2024 campaign was undone by a season-cancelling injury, causing the 49ers to end their relationship with Thomas. He found his way to Minnesota, a club searching high and low for trustworthy CB solutions.
Thomas logged a 71.5 PFF grade with the 49ers in 2023, which should turn heads.
