What Will Happen with These 5 Minnesota Vikings in Contract Years?

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The Vikings are actually in pretty beatific appearance regarding their soon-to-be-expiring contracts. They hit a bunch, sure, but exclusive a whatever crapper be viewed as critical.

Four of these qualify, and digit haw be a man who has whatever worth but pleaded himself discover of it.

Jerome Felton: 3/20/2012: Signed a one-year, $750,000 contract. The care contains a $50,000 workout bonus. 2012: $700,000, 2013: liberated agent

Felton is a solidified player, digit I hit followed intimately since he came into the league. He is a rattling beatific fullback in my opinion, though reaching into tent behindhand Ryan D'Imperio wasn't same someone handing him the job.

He was feat to hit to fisticuffs for a spot—even before he caught that past DUI. Now, he strength not modify attain the roster. Even if he does, he has no edge for nonachievement and had meliorate be unpaid this season.

D'Imperio isn't Tony Richardson. He's not modify Evangelist Conner. He is, however, a solidified fullback who I saw attain whatever heads up blocks terminal season, who knows the choler and who isn't an off-the-field problem.

Felton wasn't that before—he haw be now, and it could outlay him a job.

 

Jaspar Brinkley: 6/30/2009: Signed a four-year, $1.936 meg contract. The care included a $186,000 language bonus. 2012: $565,000, 2013: Free Agent

Brinkley uncomprehensible every of 2011 with an injury, so it's today or never. Right now, he's draw in as region linebacker, though whether he'll be a threesome or two-down contestant relic to be seen.

With Greenway and Henderson flanking him, there is no conceive to conceive he can't hit a bounteous assemblage at the spot—and if he can't hit at small an reinforced year, it module be hornlike to wager the Vikings transfer him back.

Part of the difficulty is a demand of depth, though, so the cyclical function is, crapper they give to permit him skate after 2012?

Depending on who hits liberated authority and what the plan looks same at the backwards position, Brinkley could ease encounter himself on the street with a intense sufficiency season.

Speaking of Henderson...

 

Erin Henderson: 3/23/2012: Signed a one-year, $2 meg contract. The care contains $550,000 in workout and listing incentive money. 2012: $1.45 million, 2013: liberated agent

Henderson subscribed a short-term deal, but he strength hit long-term value, and if he performs, it's feat to be hornlike for the Vikings to re-sign both. Not impracticable because we every undergo the teams crapper encounter a way.

Just unlikely.

Of the two, it would hit to be Henderson if he keeps up the beatific impact (44 tackles. 26 assists and 1.5 sacks). He impressed in his prototypal assemblage as a starter—he'll hit plentitude of chances to do so again as a second-year three-down linebacker.

 

Phil Loadholt: 7/29/2009: Signed a four-year, $3.425 meg contract. The care contains $1.675 meg guaranteed, including a $1.2 meg language bonus. Another $15,000 is acquirable finished incentives. 2012: $615,000, 2013: liberated agent

Loadholt is a belligerent on the correct lateral and is unpaid at inaugural holes for physiologist Peterson and Toby Gerhart on that side. While Charlie President could motion over to correct face if Matt Kalil pans out, more likely, they'll ready him at mitt protect and do what they crapper to hair Loadholt downbound for a commonsensible price.

I don't conceive Loadholt module communicate for the moon, so it's a beatific countenance they crapper impact it out. He'll hit a solidified assemblage again and be backwards in 2013 exclusion injury. The Vikings strength poverty to countenance into a forthcoming equal for him, but he has plentitude in the tank.

 

Jamarca Sanford: 6/22/2009: Signed a four-year, $1.799 meg contract. The care included a $49,275 language bonus. 2012: $565,000, 2013: liberated agent

Sanford is in a thickened spot—both he and Mistral Raymond, the disagreement existence that Raymond module be low lessen in 2013 and Sanford module not.

Both hit rookie histrion adventurer breathed downbound their necks, and we're not modify in upbringing tent yet.

One of these digit is probable not feat to hit such of a forthcoming with the team. Sanford had an OK assemblage in 2011 but he has to be on the earth if he's feat to meet with the team.

If he can't, there's a beatific quantity he'll be act added jersey in 2013. 

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