Kyle Van Noy is staying in purple.
The veteran linebacker is signing with the Vikings’ practice squad, via Tom Pelissero of Netflix.
The move reunites Van Noy with defensive coordinator Brian Flores. They spent four years together in New England, winning a pair of Super Bowls. In 2020, Van Noy signed with the Dolphins, when Flores was the head coach.
The move comes after three years for the 35-year-old Van Noy in Baltimore.
A second-round pick of the Lions in 2014, Van Noy has appeared in 173 regular-season games with 115 starts. He has 57.0 career sacks.
He brings to Minnesota a thorough knowledge of the Flores system, which will make it easy for him to get up to speed — and to help some of the younger players figure out how to run it the way Flores wants it to be run.
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The Vikings are taking a look at a veteran edge defender who has plenty of familiarity with their defensive coordinator.
According to the league’s daily transition wire, Kyle Van Noy visited with Minnesota on Tuesday.
Van Noy, 35, spent the last three seasons with the Ravens. But Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores coached Van Noy with the Patriots from 2016-2018 and with the Dolphins in 2020.
Van Noy appeared in 15 games with 13 starts for Baltimore in 2025, registering 2.0 sacks with four tackles for loss and nine QB hits. But in 2024, Van Noy registered 12.5 sacks with 14 tackles for loss and 21 QB hits.
A second-round pick in 2014, Van Noy has registered 57.0 career sacks in his 173 games.
Ravens defensive tackle Nnamdi Madubuike did not go on injured reserve while the team set its initial 53-man roster, which means that the team does not think he will miss the first four games of the season as he continues working his way back from the neck injury that kept him out for most of last year.
That doesn’t mean Madubuike is going to be playing in Week 1 against the Colts, however. Madubuike did not take part in 11-on-11 work during training camp and head coach Jesse Minter declined to say at a Monday press conference if that will happen this week.
“I don’t see him obviously missing that many games,” Minter said, via the team’s website. “I think the path that’s been all along, he’s progressing more and more. So we’ll kind of evaluate these next couple weeks.”
Minter did say that Madubuike is in “a good position” and the Ravens will continue to monitor his workload to determine when he’s ready to move up to full participation in both practices and games.
Ravens kicker Tyler Loop missed field goals of 58 and 51 yards in the preseason finale. He finished the preseason 5-of-8 as he tries to rebound from the 44-yard miss that ended the Ravens’ season in Week 17.
Baltimore kept Loop on the roster, but signed Jake Moody to the practice squad on Monday.
“I have a lot of confidence in Tyler still,” Jesse Minter said, via Jamison Hensley of ESPN. “He’s had a great training camp. I expect him to be our kicker going into [the Sept. 13 season opener in] Indianapolis.
“But you’re always trying to just have every scenario covered, and so that’s what we’re trying to do as a team.”
Loop, whom the Ravens drafted in 2025 to replace Justin Tucker, went 30-of-34 but was only 1-of-4 from 50 yards or longer. That was the second-worst rate in the NFL.
He remains with the Ravens — for now — but will have to hold off Moody for the job.
The Ravens have brought in some potential competition at kicker for Tyler Loop.
Baltimore announced on Monday that the club has signed former third-round pick Jake Moody to its practice squad.
Moody, 26, had been with the Commanders since midway through last season. But Washington let him go in mid-August after Drew Stevens won the team’s kicking competition.
Moody made 21-of-25 field goals and 60-of-61 extra points in his first season with the 49ers but struggled throughout 2024, making just 70.6 percent of his field goals. When he missed two kicks in San Francisco’s season opener last year, the team let him go.
He kicked for Chicago for two games, making 8-of-9 field goals and 3-of-3 extra points while filling in for an injured Cairo Santos. He then went to Washington and made 10-of-11 field goals and 10-of-11 extra points in six games.
Loop, entering his second season, connected on 30-of-34 field goals and 44-of-46 extra points as a rookie — infamously missing a 44-yard attempt wide right at the end of the regular season that would have won the AFC North and sent the Ravens to the postseason over the Steelers. He missed two long field goals in Baltimore’s preseason finale, with a 58-yard and a 51-yard attempt each going wide left.
The Ravens reached the 53-player limit on Sunday, but their biggest story was who they kept.
Undrafted free agent quarterback Joe Fagnano made the initial roster as the Ravens waived quarterback Austin Reed. Fagnano is behind Lamar Jackson and Tyler Huntley on the depth chart.
The Ravens announced they also waived inside linebacker Michael Barrett, offensive guard Evan Beerntsen, defensive lineman Rayshaun Benny, wide receiver Cortez Braham Jr., offensive lineman Corey Bullock, center Nick Dawkins, inside linebacker Dominic DeLuca, defensive lineman Aaron Graves, wide receiver Xavier Guillory, outside linebacker Adisa Isaac, wide receiver Cornelius Johnson, inside linebacker Jamon Johnson, linebacker Carl Jones Jr., offensive tackle Gerad Lichtenhan, cornerback Robert Longerbeam, running back Dontae McMillan, defensive lineman David Olajiga, tight end Ty Pezza, cornerback Marquise Robinson, outside linebacker Kaimon Rucker, fullback Lucas Scott, wide receiver Octavian Smith Jr., running back Elijah Tau-Tolliver, wide receiver Dayton Wade, safety Silas Walters, cornerback Lardarius Webb Jr. and defensive lineman Dion Wilson Jr.
The team terminated the contracts of wide receiver Chris Moore, cornerback Amani Oruwariye, offensive tackle David Sharpe, safety K’Von Wallace and running back Jonathan Ward.
The Ravens also placed cornerback Bilhal Kone and running back Adam Randall on injured reserve with a return designation.
After two disappointing seasons in Baltimore, Adisa Isaac won’t be around for a third.
The Ravens are releasing Isaac today, according to multiple reports.
Isaac was an All-Big Ten outside linebacker at Penn State and the Ravens took him in the third round in 2024, but he has struggled to stay healthy, playing in only four games as a rookie in 2024 and then missing the entire season in 2025.
Now Isaac will hope that some other team liked his talent heading into the draft enough to take a shot on bringing him in and hoping that in a new setting, he can get on the field and stay on the field.
The growing trend of NFL teams keeping their quarterbacks out of the preseason has reached the point where more than one-third of starting quarterbacks did not take a single snap in this year’s preseason.
The reasons were different for different teams: Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Colts quarterback Daniel Jones are recovering from season-ending injuries. Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson haven’t played in the preseason in years, across multiple coaching staffs. Rams coach Sean McVay is perhaps the most cautious coach in the league when it comes to avoiding preseason injuries, so of course reigning MVP quarterback Matthew Stafford didn’t play.
But the result is the same: If you’re tuning into a preseason game, you’re increasingly likely to see backup quarterbacks exclusively, and if you see a starter at all, it will typically only be for a series or two.
Here’s the full list of teams that didn’t play their starting quarterbacks at all this preseason, via Mike Reiss of ESPN:
Seahawks: Sam Darnold.
Patriots: Drake Maye.
Cowboys: Dak Prescott.
Ravens: Lamar Jackson.
Steelers: Aaron Rodgers.
Colts: Daniel Jones.
Jaguars: Trevor Lawrence.
Chiefs: Patrick Mahomes.
Eagles: Jalen Hurts.
Lions: Jared Goff.
Saints: Tyler Shough.
Rams: Matthew Stafford.
The Ravens and Chiefs have agreed to a trade ahead of Sunday’s deadline for teams to set their initial 53-man rosters.
NFL Media reports that the Ravens will send offensive tackle Diego Pounds to Kansas City. There’s no word on compensation coming back to Baltimore.
Pounds signed with the Ravens after going undrafted out of Ole Miss this year. He started 24 games at left tackle for the Rebels over the last two seasons and also saw time at the position during three years at North Carolina.
The Chiefs list Josh Simmons and Jaylon Moore as the starting tackles on their depth chart with Esa Pole and Kahlil Benson on the second string.
A 2025 draft pick is among the Ravens’ cuts as they move toward a 53-man roster.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the Ravens have waived cornerback Robert Longerbeam. The Ravens selected Longerbeam in the sixth round last year.
Longerbeam did not appear in any games during his rookie season and spent the year on injured reserve after suffering a knee injury in the summer. He had 11 tackles in three preseason games this summer.
The Ravens have until 6 p.m. ET on Sunday to set their initial 53-man roster. They cleared another roster spot on Saturday by trading defensive tackle C.J. Okoye to the Giants.
