The Cincinnati-to-Minnesota pipeline continues to flow. On Thursday, the Vikings signed former Bengals OT Andre Smith to a one-year contract. Ian Rapoport of NFL Network says the deal is worth $3.5 million and could go up to $4.5 million with incentives.
The Vikings also recently re-signed former Bengals CB Terence Newman to a one-year deal and signed former Cincinnati LB Emmanuel Lamur to a contract. In recent years, Minnesota has had former Bengals Taylor Mays, Michael Johnson and Chris Crocker in for short looks.
Mike Zimmer isn’t kidding when he says he likes the familiarity factor that comes with signing former players.