Competing in the upcoming season is going to be made difficult by a financial obstacle: a mountain of dead money.
The Vikings encounter the problem largely due to some recent decisions. True, Kirk Cousins and Danielle Hunter were inherited players, but Kwesi Adofo-Mensah pushed signing bonus money into future years to finance the 2022 and 2023 seasons. The end result is a 2024 Vikings budget that’s going to need to digest a whopping amount of inaccessible cap space.
Vikings Encounter a Pile of Dead Money in 2024 Budget
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