Mainly referring to guys like Hunter, Jefferson, Darrisaw, Bynum, Cousins. I’m not saying we can’t afford all of them but is it really plausible to keep all of them?
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We can resign them all if we send Kirk packing.
@broseph_bobby just spitting facts this guy thinks Kirk will change his life around and become the next Brady if we give him more green can’t u see that the team looked better with a mobile qb
I’ve seen $40mil/year floated for JJ a lot. Not sure on the other guys. Cousins should have a lower contract than he once might have due to ACL. If we even sign him at all.
It’s a team of 52+, there is no room for stars in this league.
We can conceivably keep everyone with some contract gymnastics but we would be setting up for an eventual salary cap implosion a few years down the line.
We essentially did this with all the aging defensive stars of Zimmers defense and Cousins contracts to where all we could really do was rely on the draft to fill out a large part of the roster.
Coincidentally, this is the reason why GM’s are very hesitant giving too many players a lot of money because it is really difficult to continually hit in the draft rather than spend money on several serviceable free agents to fill a roster.
A rule of thumb I’ve followed for my own expectations is basically a rule of three:
You can pay top positional dollar to about 3 players on offense and 3 players on defense and have enough cap room to build a solid team as long as your day 1 and 2 draft selections aren’t all busts.
JJ and Is getting paid. We paid Hock top dollar. So by rule of 3 do you want Kirk or Darrisaw? Or you keep both and then you have less on the defensive side which brings its own issues
After Sweat’s contract, I think Hunter aims for 28-30 AAV. I would like him back but it’ll be tough at that price when Darrisaw & Jettas need extending.
Jettas gonna reset the market. 35 AAV or whatever the highest non QB hit is when he extends.
Darrisaw is still a few years away. But he’ll probably get 28-30 AAV too when he’s up.
The really question is how we structure & guarantees.
I think the Vikings are in kind of a good situation cap wise going forward, mostly because we’ve shed most of our bad contracts (Harrison Smith is the only one left, really), and a lot of the fallout of those moves will be off the books by 2025.
We’re also in a position where all of the talent due big paydays are coming off of their rookie contracts, so we’re a lot less likely to wind up with a bunch of overpaid declining vets. The only vets that we may want to keep around longer term are Hunter and maybe Cousins.