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The 2024 Minnesota Vikings had been imagined to win six or seven video games in 2024, a season that the majority thought-about a springboard to 2025 and past.
20 Vikings Free Agent Targets — Primarily based on Kwesi Clues
As an alternative, they gained 14.
Now, the franchise will hope to keep up or enhance the 14-win lifestyle, and the primary cease for 2025 team-building is a couple of week and a half away — free company.
Common supervisor Kwesi Adofo-Mensah has led the Vikings for 3 years, displaying a “type” in free company, as evidenced by his earlier offseasons.
So, these are the Adofo-Mensah free company traits and gamers who may meet the criterion.
It’s value noting that Adofo-Mensah has about $63 million to make use of in free company, his most, by far, because the Vikings’ boss.
The 25-27 Age Vary
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Adofo-Mensah has proven an ardor for welcoming gamers to Minnesota in a selected age vary — 25 to 27.
The tactic is smart amid his aggressive rebuild course of, which the Vikings accomplished final offseason. He seeks gamers embarking on their prime. Byron Murphy Jr. and Harrison Phillips are current examples.
2025 Free Agent Examples:Will Fries (OG)Jevon Holland (S)Talanoa Hufanga (S)Javonte Williams (RB)Trevon Moehrig (S)
Unfazed by Harm Historical past
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This model of Vikings enjoys shopping for low on gamers with an damage historical past. Typically it really works — Andrew Van Ginkel. In different circumstances, it doesn’t — Marcus Davenport.
However Adofo-Mensah is unafraid to guess towards re-injury.
2025 Free Agent Examples:J.Ok. Dobbins (RB)Teven Jenkins (OG)Paulson Adebo (CB)Talanoa Hufanga (S)Levi Onwuzurike (DT)
Contracts with Finest Worth
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Adofo-Mensah has made no secret of searching for worth offers in free company. Some notable events had been Byron Murphy Jr. in 2023 and Shaquill Griffin in 2024.
The younger normal supervisor provides his worth speech at the very least as soon as per 12 months in entrance of a microphone.
2025 Free Agent Examples:Paulson Adebo (CB)J.Ok. Dobbins (RB)Mike Jackson (CB)Talanoa Hufanga (S)Javonte Williams (RB)Trevon Moehrig (S)
All the time a Veteran Linebacker
In his final three offseasons — so every time with the Vikings — Adofo-Mensah onboarded a veteran linebacker. Jordan Hicks, Troy Reeder, Blake Cashman, and Kamu Gruger-Hill are the lads currently.
Search for one inside linebacker to land in Minnesota if Grugier-Hill isn’t re-signed.
2025 Free Agent Examples:Jerome Baker (LB)Robert Spillane (LB)
Gamers with Ties to Kevin O’Connell, Brian Flores
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Maybe essentially the most populated discipline this go-round, the Vikings usually add gamers with previous connections to Kevin O’Connell and Brian Flores — Johnny Mundt, Brandon Powell, Andrew Van Ginkel, and so forth.
2025 Free Agent Examples:Tutu Atwell (WR)Jevon Holland (S)Jerome Baker (LB)Cooper Kupp (WR)Adam Thielen (WR)***Van Jefferson (WR)Robert Woods (WR)Sebastian Joseph-Day (DT)
Good Gamers … about to Break Out
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Harrison Phillips in 2022 is a primary instance of a participant “just needing snaps” to take off. Adofo-Mensah grabs these commodities usually. Blake Cashman, for instance, match the profile final 12 months.
2025 Free Agent Examples:Will Fries (OG)Trevon Moehrig (S)Milton Williams (DT)
Hometown or Proximity Connection
This one doesn’t occur on a regular basis, however the Vikings appear to take pleasure in gamers with a hometown or collegiate connection just like the aforementioned Cashman, who attended the College of Minnesota.
2025 Free Agent Examples:Adam Thielen (WR)***
Former Excessive-Spherical Draft Picks
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From the Jalen Reagor commerce, to Ross Blacklock a number of years in the past, to Jerry Tillery final 12 months, Adofo-Mensah appears to take pleasure in gamers with former high-round draft capital.
2025 Free Agent Examples:Jevon Holland (S)Trevon Moehrig (S)Teven Jenkins (OG)Javonte Williams (RB)
By no means Breaks the Financial institution on the “Top Guy”
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Lastly, though this might change in 2025 as a result of the Vikings, alas, have spectacular cap area, this model of the purple staff’s entrance workplace hardly unloads the cash truck for the highest free agent at his place.
For example, the membership didn’t signal Christian Wilkins final 12 months.
Subsequently, Adofo-Mensah seeks the compromise various, one other illustration of the gamers with one of the best worth.
2025 Free Agent Examples:Paulson Adebo (CB)J.Ok. Dobbins (RB)Mike Jackson (CB)Talanoa Hufanga (S)Javonte Williams (RB)Trevon Moehrig (S)
*** Adam Thielen remains to be underneath contract however is a attainable reduce candidate for the Panthers.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his day by day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options friends, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple staff, with 4-7 episodes per week. His MIN obsession dates again to 1996. Listed responsible pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, ‘The Sopranos,’ Basset Hounds, and The Doorways (the band). He follows the NBA as carefully because the NFL.
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