Vikings Meeting Today with Za’Darius Smith

The Vikings haven’t been super active so far in free agency, although they’ve picked up some nice pieces in DT Harrison Phillips and LB Jordan Hicks. But Tom Pelissero tweeted today that the Vikings are meeting with former Packers’ OLB Za’Darius Smith.

Smith had agreed to a 4-year, $35 million deal with the Ravens, only to back out of the deal days later- reportedly because he saw the bigger deals that Von Miller and Chandler Jones got.

Spotrac estimates Smith’s market value at $16.7 million/year, considerably more than what the Ravens offered. Given the Vikings salary cap space, signing Smith at that rate would eat up most of their available cap space (estimated around $20 million), barring…