Vikings' cornerback Benny Sapp was ticketed for fifth-degree assault and careless driving early Friday morning at Children's Hospital in Minneapolis. Minneapolis police Sgt. William Palmer says Sapp "chest bumped" a security officer before getting into his car and trying to drive past another security officer. Sapp was released on site.

Benny Sapp has only been with the Vikings for 12-days, nonetheless he says players aren't fully "buying in" and "believing in what the coaches" are telling them to do. The team might want to listen to Sapp. He played on the 2009 team that just missed a trip to the Super Bowl.

The Minnesota Vikings are flying in cornerback Benny Sapp for a workout this week. Sapp previously played for the Vikings in 2008 and 2009. He was released by the Dolphins earlier this season.

With the injured Antoine Winfield out for the season and Chris Cook fighting domestic abuse charges, the Vikings hired cornerback Benny Sapp to help out the sorry secondary. Sapp played for the Vikings in 2008 and 2009 before being traded to Miami.

There have been 10 arrests of Minnesota Vikings players since January 2011 – almost twice as many as the second-place Detroit Lions. Star running back Adrian Peterson's arrest marked the 39th time a Vikings player has been arrested or cited since 2000, which also leads the NFL, according to Pioneer Press research.

What do E.J. Henderson, Fred Evans, Erin Henderson, Husain Abdullah, Visanthe Shiancoe, Devin Aromashodu, Letroy Guion, Tyrell Johnson, Kenny Onatolu and Benny Sapp have in common? They're all free agents, and the Vikings need to figure out what to do with each of them.

Ex-Viking linebacker Ben Leber played in Minnesota during the two years Brett Favre did, the second of which the QB admitted he came back mainly because the money was too good to pass up. Leber says that just means Favre “wasn’t committed” to the Vikings.

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton sounds off on the rash of arrests among Minnesota Vikings players. He tells MPR some players "have fallen considerably short" of being role models.