Vikings Predicted to Part Ways With $67 Million Pro Bowler
The Minnesota Vikings have reached a crossroads with Pro Bowl edge rusher Danielle Hunter — and it appears unlikely that Hunter will return after nine years in Minnesota.
ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reported on February 10 that the buzz at Super Bowl week in Las Vegas was all about Hunter, who is poised to command a “strong market” in free agency. Fowler added that several teams were interested in Hunter at the trade deadline — namely, the Chicago Bears, who are “very high” on Hunter, and the Jacksonville Jaguars, who inquired about Hunter last year.
Taking into account the premium that has proactively surfaced freely about Tracker, who turns 29 this late spring, Purple Insider’s Matthew Coller verified Fowler’s report from a neighborhood level. “I feel like Danielle Tracker isn’t returning. On the episode of the “Purple Insider” podcast that aired on February 10, Coller said, “It just doesn’t seem like, considering how much other teams are going to be willing to give him.
” He also said that the Vikings won’t be willing to match offers from other teams because of their current financial situation. “It simply appears as though someone will bet everything on Danielle Tracker,” Coller added. Vikings’ Choice on Kirk Cousins Influencing Danielle Tracker Discussions: Report. Close by Fowler’s report on Tracker, ESPN insider Dan Graziano noticed that the Vikings’ dealings with Tracker have been put “waiting” until the group settles on Kirk Cousins’ future. The couple are two of the group’s most generously compensated players on their individual sides of the ball and convey monstrous dead cap hits on the off chance that they don’t re-sign before the beginning of free organization on Walk 13.
Cousins has $28.5 million in customized rewards that would advance quickly onto the 2024 cap sheet assuming he strolls, while Tracker has $14.9 million in expected dead cap in the event that he doesn’t re-sign, as per Over the Cap. The choice on Cousins is the main domino that will fall this offseason. Many of the team’s most beloved players have agreed to let go of backloaded veteran contracts under the new Vikings regime. After years of restructures and extensions that provided temporary cap relief at the expense of the team’s future, they have expressed a desire to keep these players, but at a price that makes sense for the team’s future. That prompted the takeoffs of Dalvin Cook, Adam Thielen and Eric Kendricks last season.
This spring, there’s a course of events where neither Cousins nor Tracker are re-marked and the Vikings take care of business, eating their consolidated $43.4 million in dead cap that would significantly prevent their capacity to construct a program for 2024. Be that as it may, the Vikings would come out the opposite side with the fifth-most cap space of any group in the association one year from now and be in a situation to be purchasers in free organization — similar as the Bears will this offseason. Danielle Hunter could break the bank after a career year.
Tracker arriving at free organization this offseason comes following quite a while of his representative redressing a terrible arrangement he expedited. Tracker marked a five-year, $72 million arrangement that he quickly outflanked the following two years. Tracker posted an association driving 154 tensions across the 2018 and 2019 seasons, per Genius Football Concentration, and the third-most sacks (29.0) among all NFL protectors. He turned into the most youthful player to arrive at 50 profession sacks and was ready to move toward new agreement talks had he not missed the whole 2020 season with a neck injury. Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reported in October 2020 that Hunter would undergo neck surgery with the prominent message that the Vikings would have to either trade him or make him the highest-paid defender in the NFL the following offseason. #Vikings star Danielle Tracker is having a medical procedure to tidy up a herniated plate, taking him out for 2020, per me and @TomPelissero. MIN has a choice this offseason: Make Tracker the most generously compensated protector in football or exchange him. Is this his last appearance in a Vikings uniform? Tracker’s representative has strived to get Tracker his contribution, which prompted a few rebuilds and another single-year bargain the previous summer. Tracker demonstrated his value, posting a vocation high 16.5 sacks this season and is entering a market ready for him to hit another payday. After acquiring Montez Sweat, 27, in a trade with the Washington Commanders, Chicago signed him to a four-year, $98 million contract in the middle of the season. Sweat recently had never outperformed 9.0 sacks in a solitary season prior to marking the arrangement. The Bears could stand to overpay Sweat and may not be done at this point paying at the exceptional position. Master Football Concentration (PFF) extended Tracker to gather a three-year, $67 million arrangement, however he could present the defense for a $25 million every year yearly rate. On the off chance that the Vikings can’t get their proposal in that frame of mind of that number, Tracker is probably going to continue on.
