Minnesota Vikings Made Sneaky Secondary Signing

We are less than a week away from the start of the 2025 NFL season. All Minnesota Vikings preseason games have been played, the 90-man roster has been cut to 53 active players and all signings/trades involving veteran QBs and homegrown star wide receivers coming home have been finalized.

Now, we wait for September 8 when the regular season kicks off in the Windy City on Monday Night Football against the Chicago Bears. Well, not really. While bona fide starters are indeed waiting/preparing for week one, fringe roster and practice squad players are fighting for their jobs everyday.

Because the MN Vikings front office (like most in the NFL) never sleeps. Between the dozen or so non-guaranteed guys on the end of the active bench, plus 16 lightly reserved spots on the practice squad, there are a ton of jobs in Eagan that are never safe.

Especially with GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah constantly monitoring free agency and the trade market in search of any kind of talent upgrade he can inject into TCO Performance Center.

Minnesota Vikings sign veteran NFL safety to practice squad

And on Thursday evening, it appears he did exactly that with the signing of 28-year-old veteran safety, K’Von Wallace, who’s played 71 games in the NFL, including 19 starts between the Seahawks, Cardinals and Titans.

The #Vikings have signed S K'Von Wallace to the practice squad. pic.twitter.com/mKpJdn0ZYX

— Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) August 28, 2025

Prior to the signing of Wallace — a former 4th round pick out of Clemson with 5 years of NFL experience — the Vikings practice squad was built almost exclusively of young, unproven talent.

Now, with both Fabian Moreau and Wallace in the building, Minnesota coaches and executives feel much better about their secondary depth, a stubbornness that has left fans and media alike scratching their heads.

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But because of depth pieces like Moreau — who played 104 snaps in five games last season for the Vikings — and now K’Von Wallace, Kwesi continues to dismiss the notion that Minnesota’s secondary needs another major contributor.

In fact, he doubled down on Thursday afternoon, during a press conference he held in Eagan with head coach Kevin O’Connell, in which he verbally waived off a question regarding lack of depth in the CB room by mentioning Fabian Moreau signing with the practice squad.

On Thursday, general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah was asked about his team’s plan for the defensive backfield. He didn’t hint at any significant changes on the horizon. He did, however, cite the practice-squad addition of veteran cornerback Fabian Moreau as a move to provide depth.

“We were able to bring back Fabian, who we view as an NFL-caliber guy,” Adofo-Mensah said. “He can play a lot of snaps for us.”

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What to expect from new safety K’Von Wallace

A couple hours after Kwesi and KOC’s presser, the MN Vikings signed K’Von Wallace to the practice squad. At first glance, it’s possible Wallace could represent an even more impactful presence in Minnesota’s secondary, than Fabian Moreau, even though he plays a position (safety) that, at least on paper, appears more set in stone.

Not only has Wallace started more games, over the course of his career, than Moreau; but the former Clemson Tiger is three years younger than his new teammate, with 64 more games of NFL experience. His 19 starts are also 19 more than Moreau has ever seen during his 8 years in the league.

K'Von Wallace gives his offense the ball back @KVonWallace

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— NFL (@NFL) October 8, 2023

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Plus, Harrison Smith has yet to return to Minnesota Vikings practice, since vacating the facilities back on August 11 due to a mysterious illness that has now kept him out of TCO Performance Center for 2.5 weeks.

Could the K’Von Wallace signing be the Vikings foreshadowing bad news for Smith’s week one availability? Time will tell.