{"id":42702,"date":"2026-03-18T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/42702\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:05:10","slug":"vikings-sign-pro-bowl-punter-sign-van-denmark-to-offer-sheet-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/42702\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings sign Pro Bowl punter, sign Van Denmark to offer sheet | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Eagan, MN) &#8212; The Minnesota Vikings have a new punter. The team signed Johnny Hekker to a contract for the 2026 season yesterday. Hekker is entering his 15th NFL season. He&#8217;s made four Pro Bowls during his career. In other team news, the Vikings also signed offensive tackle Ryan Van Demark to an offer sheet yesterday. Van Demark will only become a Viking if Buffalo declines to match Minnesota&#8217;s offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Eagan, MN) &#8212; The Minnesota Vikings have a new punter. The team signed Johnny Hekker to a contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15514,27,26,24110,24109,24108,2814,24113,24111,24112],"class_list":{"0":"post-42702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denmark","8":"tag-buffalo","9":"tag-danmark","10":"tag-denmark","11":"tag-johnny-hekker","12":"tag-minnesota","13":"tag-minnesota-vikings","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-offensive-tackle","16":"tag-pro-bowl","17":"tag-ryan-van-demark"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116250091520634896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}