When the Minnesota Vikings signed Kirk Cousins and Sheldon Richardson on back-to-back days during the first wave of free agency, something had to give elsewhere on the roster in order to create necessary salary cap room.
Last Thursday, running back Latavius Murray agreed to restructure his contract, dropping his base salary for 2018 from $5.15 million to $3.65 million, which created $1.15 million in cap space. About an hour after announcing Richardson’s signing on Friday, the Vikings cut veteran wide receiver Jarius Wright.
That move freed up $2.