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Most Minnesota Vikings followers hoped the offseason would maintain off till late January or early February, however the staff’s loss in Arizona on Monday night time whisked the offseason to the forefront this week.
Vikings Signings: 13 Gamers Added for 2025
The Los Angeles Rams eradicated the purple staff from the playoffs, ending a 14-3 season that when appeared promising.
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Subsequently, common supervisor Kwesi Adofo-Mensah obtained again to work this week, and his first order of enterprise concerned signing 13 gamers to futures contracts. It’s a daily observe amongst all NFL groups and usually serves as a instrument to re-sign observe squad gamers.
The Vikings had been no completely different. Eleven of the 13 lived on the 2024 observe squad. Right here’s the complete checklist:
Travis Bell (DL)
Henry Byrd (OG)
Jonathan Harris (DL)
Kahlef Hailassie (CB)
Fortunate Jackson (WR)
Marcellus Johnson (OT)
Gabriel Murphy (OLB)
Brett Rypien (QB)
Zavier Scott (RB)
Reddy Steward (CB)
Thayer Thomas (WR)
Max Tooley (LB)
Leroy Watson (OT)
A lot of the males on the checklist — Bell, Byrd, Harris, Jackson, Johnson, Tooley, and Watson — are pretty normal or mundane signings, males who will inhabit the observe squad once more in 2025 in the event that they make it by the spring and summer time.
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Others, nonetheless, are a bit extra noteworthy. Hailassie is model new to the Vikings and is simply 24 years outdated. He’s performed simply over 100 defensive snaps within the NFL for the Cleveland Browns in 2023 and 2024. He may presumably have some endurance with extra NFL motion than most on the checklist.
Murphy, an undrafted free agent EDGE rusher from final yr’s class, has a high-profile UDFA resume. Some envisioned him as “this year’s Ivan Pace Jr.” when Minnesota signed him final April. Accidents derailed most of his rookie season.
Rypien served because the Vikings’ QB3 for a lot of the season. He and J.J. McCarthy are the one quarterbacks connected to Minnesota’s books for the 2025 season, a minimum of on January sixteenth. Rypien will probably compete for a QB2 or QB3 project this summer time.
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Scott is fascinating as a result of Ty Chandler is the one working again beneath contract in 2025 for Minnesota. In idea, he may get frisky and compete for RB3 subsequent season.
Steward is perhaps the splashiest title. Chicago Bears followers fell in love with him through the preseason due to a two-interception recreation and pick-six. He noticed common season motion in a single recreation this season and promptly compelled a fumble on Arizona Cardinals wideout Marvin Harrison Jr.
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Lastly, Vikings coaches have spoken extremely of Thayer Thomas, a large receiver, in back-to-back offseasons. He’s again, too.
That is simply the tip of the iceberg for Vikings’ signings. The membership has about $70 million in cap house to spend on free brokers in March as lifeless cash from Kirk Cousins + Danielle Hunter’s contracts falls off the books. In idea, if Minnesota re-signed Sam Darnold to a big extension, a lot of the oft-mentioned cap house would slip away.
NFL free company is lower than eight weeks away.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his each day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options visitors, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple staff, with 4-7 episodes per week. His Vikings 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 intently because the NFL.
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