{"id":275864,"date":"2023-09-21T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=275864"},"modified":"2023-09-21T09:48:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T14:48:56","slug":"vikings-acquire-running-back-cam-akers-from-rams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=275864","title":{"rendered":"Vikings Acquire Running Back Cam Akers from Rams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>EAGAN, Minn. \u2014<\/strong>&nbsp;The Vikings on Wednesday announced a trade agreement to acquire running back Cam Akers from the Rams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal is pending Akers passing a physical exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akers has started 15 of 30 regular-season games played for the Rams, totaling 1,443 yards and 10 touchdowns on 360 carries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s added 27 receptions for 250 yards and a touchdown in those contests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akers started in Week 1, totaling 29 yards and a touchdown on 22 carries. He was inactive last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 2020 second-round pick out of Florida State, Akers played his first two pro seasons with Vikings Head Coach Kevin O&#8217;Connell as his offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akers missed all but one game of the 2021 regular season, but he returned in time to help the Rams win Super Bowl LVI as Los Angeles relied on a rotation at the position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He started the final three games of that title run and totaled 172 yards on 67 carries and 76 yards on eight receptions that postseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAGAN, Minn. \u2014&nbsp;The Vikings on Wednesday announced a trade agreement to acquire running back Cam Akers from the Rams. The deal is pending Akers passing a physical exam. Akers has started 15 of 30 regular-season games played for the Rams, totaling 1,443 yards and 10 touchdowns on 360 carries. He&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":275865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275866,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275864\/revisions\/275866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/275865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}