Star Tribune · Sep 19, 2020
How are the Vikings paying for all this? With creativity and audacity
Vikings running back Dalvin Cook during pregame introductions in Sunday’s season opener.Since they kicked off their 2017 training camp with three contract extensions in an 11-day span — giving two deals to players with two years remaining on their contracts — the Vikings have gone to more audacious lengths to keep their core players together than just about any team in the NFL.
They have issued 12 contracts of more than $50 million each in that time, writing deals with a total value of over $814 million. They at least partly guaranteed nearly half a billion dollars of those deals — $499,030,361, to be exact.
