Udeze on reserve-NFI list

The Vikes place Kenechi Udeze on the Nonfootball illness list today. So that he can focus on his fight against leukemia, without financial worries.With this move, he will not be able to play in the 2008 Viking season. This also guarantees him his $807,500 salary for the year on his contract. Udeze signed a five-year contract as a first-round draft pick out of Southern California in 2004 and will be a free agent next March. Once the upcoming season is over, Childress said the Vikings will revisit Udeze's status.Udeze revealed the cancer was in remission right now, and that his older brother has matching bone marrow for a pending transplant. All of us in the Viking just hope that he can get through the battle with leukemia.