Detroit Lions followers cheer in opposition to Minnesota Vikings offense earlier than a 3rd down through the second half at Ford Area in Detroit on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025. Offensive Line. © Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK by way of Imagn Photos.
First, security Theo Jackson returned to the Minnesota Vikings for at the least two extra years, on deck to probably begin for the purple staff in 2025.
Vikings Fireplace Off third Contract Extension of Weekend
Aaron Jones joined Jackson by way of contract extension in Minnesota on Sunday, and to spherical out the weekend, Minnesota re-upped with punter Ryan Wright.
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Final yr, normal supervisor Kwesi Adofo-Mensah added punter Seth Vernon throughout free company, and the same maneuver can’t be dominated out in 2025.
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Wright ranked twenty third within the NFL through the 2024 marketing campaign with 46.5 yards per punt. He checked in at No. 24 leaguewide in web yards per punt however eighth per contained in the 20-yard-line proportion (48.2%). Put plainly, Wright is a good punter who’s definitely worth the current extension, although Vikings followers shouldn’t elevate eyebrows if one other specialist indicators with the membership earlier than June.
Jackson, however, raked in a deal value barely over $6 million yearly. He’s in line to begin subsequent season if Minnesota loses Harrison Smith to retirement or Camryn Bynum to free company. Most onlookers interpreted the Jackson deal and monetary particulars as an omen that Bynum would probably be part of a brand new staff early subsequent week.
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And on Jones, he’ll retain his RB1 title whereas Minnesota presumably scours the 2025 NFL Draft class for a rookie halfback. The upcoming class is unusually deep at operating again, and it is likely to be prison for the Vikings to think about Jones a standalone offseason RB answer, particularly with Jones turning 31 in six months. Minnesota can do each: Jones + a rookie RB.
Minnesota entered final week with 26 inner free brokers, so three have been crossed off the board, with the statuses of 23 remaining.
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Quarterback Sam Darnold, cornerback Byron Murphy Jr., and the aforementioned Bynum, a security, are labeled as the subsequent big-ticket gadgets relating to in-house free company for Minnesota.
Wright turned a Viking on the daybreak of the Kevin O’Connell period (2022), and if he’s nominated as the first punter in 2025, it’ll be his fourth straight season on the helm.
He’ll flip 25 in June.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his every 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 carefully because the NFL.
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