Do you know a few months ago when the Minnesota Vikingen started with long -awaited editions in a free desk? The figures confirm that general manager did not stop Kwesi Adofo-Mensah.
Some songs are inside with a free desk in the reverse view, and so it appears that the Vikings have fired.
Minnesota added effective newcomers to the left and right and prepares for a super bowl window to open if one assumes that quarterback JJ McCarthy will be a decent or better quarterback.
And according to Pioneer Press‘ Charley Walters, Minnesota strengthen all competitors.
Vikings give everyone … with a mile
Walters publishes a weekly column about the sports times of Minnesota, and the expenditure of the Vikings Bonanza received some attention.
He wrote Last weekend: “The Vikings so far this year are number 1 in the NFL in cash issued to players, $ 362.3 million, by Spotrac.com. The packers for $ 259.5 million are number 27 in the 32 team League. Last season the Vikings were 18th at $ 228.4 million, the Packers 19th at $ 234 million. “
Walters also mentioned the role of McCarthy among all newcomers: “So much of the coming Vikings season depends on how Rookie QB JJ McCarthy plays. At the moment a 10-7 regular seasonal record is not unreasonable.”
The $ 362.3 million is not a joke and spectators have to expect that Minnesota will be completely capable of a super bowl in the coming seasons.
The newcomers
Where have the millions been stacked on millions? Usually the attacking and defensive trenches.
Adofo-Mensah signed Guard Will Fries from the Indianapolis Colts to a five-year-old deal of $ 88 million. He also has a teammate of Fries in Indianapolis, Center Ryan Kelly.
But the purple team did not stop at the attacking line. The club signed two keynote defensive tackles, Jonathan Allen of the Washington Commanders (three years, $ 51 million) and Javon Hargrave of the San Francisco 49ers (two years, $ 30 million).
Adofo-Mensah also signed in particular Cornerback Isaiah Rodgers, Linebacker Eric Wilson, cornerback Jeff Okudah, wide receiver Rondale Moore and attacking Tackle Justin Skule, among other things.
All with a QB on an affordable contract
For one central reason, the Vikings have unloaded so much money: they had the money because McCarthy will play a cheap contract for the next four years.
Minnesota chose McCarthy from round 1 of the 2024 NFL concept, and almost whatever happens, he will be confirmed to the depth card of the head coach Kevin O’Connell until the end of 2028. Adofo-Mensah does not have to pay McCarthy Top-Tier Quarterback money up to 2029
It is the coveted NFL team construction strategy loading around a promising young passer for four or five seasons.
Symbolic end of the Kirk Cousins era
Why didn’t the Vikings recently do this? They couldn’t.
Kirk Cousins led the team on Quarterback from 2018 to 2023, and although he never checked as the best -paid Quarterback of the NFL, he usually drew the eighth money or so per season among his colleagues.
If the $ 25 million to $ 40 million is cleared in the bank account of one player, especially one such as cousins, who was productive, but not elite, his free-agent expenses of Sprees, such as Adofo-Mensah’s in 2025, virtually impossible.
The low season of 2025 marked the first time that Cousins’ contract was completely removed from the books (Dead Cap funds kept in 2024), so that the Vikings could explode on the scene as expenses.
And they did.
More facts from Charley Walters
Walters dealt with topics in his recent article, and even got the coming trip from the Vikings to Ireland.
He wrote: “The Vikings play the Steelers in Ireland on 28 September, but not because of respect for the Vikings. The game in Croke Park in Dublin is for the Rooney family, owners of the Steelers. Dan Rooney was the American ambassador in Ireland under President Obama.”
“It was the stalkers who were looking for a match in Ireland, and it just happened that the Vikings were chosen. Then the Vikings, who already played four games in the regular season in London, agreed to stay another week and play the browns in London in Tottenham Stadium.”
He also noticed about the contractual situation of Adofo-Mensah: “The NFL design and the free agency of 2025 have been completed and Vikings GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, who has left one season on his first four-year contract, remains without an extension, although the property of Vikingen has said it will be done.”
The Vikings currently hold organized team activities (OTAs), which will continue next week.
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