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3 Standout Vikings Safeties Included in PFF’s Top 32 Rankings
PFF has continued their annual rankings of all position groups heading into the 2024 season, and this time, we’re looking at their top 32 safeties. Zoltan Buday is the author of this one, and it begins pretty predictably. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Antoine Winfield Jr. kicks things off at #1, and is followed by the Baltimore Ravens’ Kyle Hamilton (did you know the Vikings had a chance to draft him?), the Atlanta Falcons’ Jessie Bates III, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Minkah Fitzpatrick, and Kyle Hamilton’s fellow Baltimore Raven Marcus Williams (yes, that Marcus Williams) to round out the top 5.
A Deep Dive Into Promising New Edge Rusher Gabriel Murphy
The Minnesota Vikings made a big-time signing in the undrafted free agent singing period after the conclusion of the 2024 NFL Draft. A year after they landed the top undrafted prospect in Cincinnati’s Ivan Pace Jr., Vikings fans are excited they may have done it again as Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and company landed UCLA edge rusher Gabriel Murphy.
With the Jefferson Deal Done, Here Are 3 Other Vikings Who Could Get Contract Extensions This Summer
On Monday morning, Vikings star wide receiver Justin Jefferson agreed to a massive contract extension. The deal will keep Jefferson in Minnesota through the 2028 season, thus ensuring that the Vikings will benefit from his services, and namely, young QB J.J. McCarthy. With Jefferson’s deal now in the rearview, who could be next up for a contract extension in Minnesota? Here is a look at three potential candidates.
Vikings Receiver Set to Change Positions in 2024
Every once in awhile, NFL players will change positions to better suit their current teams. For instance, the Minnesota Vikings saw this happen just last year when offensive tackle Blake Brandel kicked inside to guard to help fill in a depth role at the position. It paid off as Brandel started two games at right guard in relief of Ed Ingram.
Vikings Star Gets His Flowers from PFF
Throughout his young career, T.J. Hockenson has been one of the most talented tight ends in the NFL. Particularly since being traded by the Detroit Lions to the Minnesota Vikings, Hockenson has played a crucial role in Minnesota’s passing offense. As a result of his stellar production, the Vikings star was listed as the fourth-best player at the position by Pro Football Focus.
NFC North Round-Up: Ranking the RB Rooms for All 4 Teams
The NFC North is looking as if it could be one of the more competitive divisions in the entire NFL this season. While the majority of that reasoning comes from either established or potential talent at the quarterback position, all four teams look like they could have very dangerous rushing attacks as well with their RB rooms. Today, we will be ranking all four running back groups within the division.
The Full Details of Justin Jefferson’s New Contract
On Monday morning, all of Vikings fandom gave a collective sigh of relief when Justin Jefferson signed a new four-year contract. The star wide receiver inked a market-resetting deal that makes him the highest-paid non-QB in the NFL. His four-year deal will pay him a grand total of $140 million from 2025-2028, with an average annual value of $35 million.
The Sneaky Fact about Justin Jefferson’s New Contract
This week got off to a hot start as Justin Jefferson inked a new contract with the Minnesota Vikings. The star wide receiver’s new contract is a four-year deal worth a grand total of $140 million, which reset the non-QB market. Jefferson is now the highest-paid non-QB in the NFL, with his average annual value of $35 million surpassing that of Nick Bosa, whose contract has an AAV of $34 million.
The Latest on the Kirk Cousins Tampering Situation
Back in March, Kirk Cousins signed a new contract with the Atlanta Falcons, who pulled him away from the Minnesota Vikings. The signing meant that, for the first time since Cousins headed to Minnesota in 2018, the Vikings would need to find a new Week 1 starting QB. However, the veteran’s contract in Atlanta was quickly met with controversy as a tampering investigation unfolded.
The Bank Has Been Broken: Justin Jefferson Signs a Massive Contract Extension with the Vikings
For nearly a year, the main topic of discussion in Minnesota has been in regard to Justin Jefferson and his next contract. Of course, Jefferson is set to enter the fifth and final year of his rookie deal in 2024, and if the Vikings were unable to give him an extension this offseason, it would mean the receiver was destined for either free agency or the franchise tag.
Ty Chandler Faces a Pivotal 2024 Despite New Running Back in Town
The Vikings signed free-agent runningback Aaron Jones quite immediately after the Green Bay Packers signed Josh Jacobs and kicked Jones to the curb, much to head coach Kevin O’Connell’s delight. Green Bay approached Jones about taking a pay-cut for 2024 which would’ve equaled about half of what his...
Josh Frey’s 2024 NFL Power Rankings
The 2024 NFL season is still a few months away, but at this point, we know how many teams will look when September arrives. With the bulk of free agency and the NFL Draft now behind us, we’ll be going team-by-team and putting together a list of 2024 NFL power rankings and naming the best offseason move for each of the 32 NFL franchises.
Purple Headlines of the Week: Risner Re-Signs, Vikings Rookie Signs Contract, Vikings Waive a Young O-Lineman
OTAs continued to roll along for the Minnesota Vikings this week. With another week of the offseason behind us, we are continuing to inch closer to training camp, the preseason, and finally, the 2024 regular season. Here are all of the purple headlines that you may have missed over the past week.
4 Young Vikings Players Who Need a Strong Training Camp
The Minnesota Vikings roster almost across the board has progressively gotten younger over the past couple years. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that all of the young Vikings are guaranteed to make the roster. For instance, 2022 first-round pick Lewis Cine could be in danger of missing out on the final 53-man roster if he doesn’t put together a strong summer.
The Vikings Have Already Said Goodbye to Two of Their Newest Players
Every year, the NFL Draft weekend brings with it a massive influx of players to the NFL level. This spring, the Vikings made 24 acquisitions during the weekend, selecting seven players in the draft as well as signing 17 undrafted free agents following the conclusion of the draft. However, they have already decided to part ways with two of these players as they’ve waived a pair of undrafted free agents in recent weeks.
Does Josh Oliver See an Expanded Role in Year 2 as a Viking?
Few, if any, could have foreseen the deal for Josh Oliver during the 2023 offseason. T.J. Hockenson had just been added in a bold in-season trade, seemingly nullifying the need for major help at tight end. Kwesi Adodo-Mensah, as he often does, understood the situation differently. He tossed over a three-year contract to the former Raven. The contract promises to pay $21 million over that time, a pretty major amount given that Oliver had never put up gaudy receiving statistics. Is there any sense that the stats grow more abundant in 2024?
The Vikings are Digesting League-Leading Dead Money
This one has been a slow-moving crisis. That final word — crisis — may be a bit inaccurate, though. Kwesi Adofo-Mensah tends to operate with a fair bit of poise. Or, at least, he’s very capable of projecting calm. The GM has been hard at work saying both “yes” and “no” to players, seeing great veterans depart while sending out some major money to bring in replacements. Step back from all of that work and the Vikings are sitting in 1st place for dead money. The possibility was easy to foresee with guys like Kirk Cousins and Danielle Hunter possibly taking off and yet it’s still a path Minnesota opted for, suggesting they may not be too concerned.
New PFF Article Ranks NFL’s Edge Defenders, Names 2 Vikings
Trevor Sikkema of Pro Football Focus recently released his 2024 Edge Defender Rankings ahead of the 2024 season. The list shares the order in which he believes the league’s top edge rushers rank among each other. Of course, the top of the list featured no-brainers like Myles Garrett of...
The 4 Main Vikings Position Battles This Summer
The Minnesota Vikings saw a great deal of roster turnover this spring. As a result, there will be a number of new faces on the field when the season kicks off in the spring, and there will be a number of notable position battles in training camp in just a few weeks.
Vikings Defender Listed as a Favorite for Rookie of the Year
The Vikings will be looking to get massive contributions from some of the youngest players on their roster. One of those players is outside linebacker Dallas Turner, who was selected with the 17th overall pick in this spring’s draft. Recently, Chris Trapasso of CBS Sports put together his rankings for the favorites to win the Defensive Rookie of the Year award, and Turner was one of the ten players to make the list.
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