{"id":175831,"date":"2025-08-26T02:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175831\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T02:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:06:10","slug":"vikings-trade-mekhi-blackmon-to-colts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175831\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings Trade Mekhi Blackmon to Colts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EAGAN, Minn. \u2014<\/strong> The Vikings on Monday announced they have traded cornerback Mekhi Blackmon to the Indianapolis Colts in exchange for a sixth-round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is subject to Blackmon passing a physical.<\/p>\n<p>Blackmon joined Minnesota as a third-round pick (102nd overall) in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in 15 games as a rookie and made three starts, recording 41 tackles, three for loss and an interception. Blackmon suffered a season-ending ACL injury at the start of the 2024 Vikings Training Camp.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as NFL teams are reducing their rosters to 53 players by 3 p.m. (CT) Tuesday, Aug. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAGAN, Minn. \u2014 The Vikings on Monday announced they have traded cornerback Mekhi Blackmon to the Indianapolis Colts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[55091,60000,55092,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-175831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-news-index","9":"tag-news-press-release","10":"tag-news-team","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115092624788935699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}