Cook extensions 5 years $63 million

Well deserved.

Vikings’ RB Dalvin Cook agreed to a five-year contract extension that ties him to Minnesota for the next six seasons, per sources.

New money average is $12.5 per year, so five years, $62.5 million. Now it just needs to be signed.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) September 12, 2020

Kamara Saint 5 year 75 mil also announced this morning

Brez is a wizard and very good at his job.

I knew it was going to happen, he's just too good to mess around with. 

The team utilized a built in simple restructure in Kendrick’s contract to create cap space...  B)  shifting $6 million in base salary to a signing bonus to help spread out the cost, a source told Schefter.

@"Kentis" said: The team utilized a built in simple restructure in Kendrick’s contract to create cap space...  B)  shifting $6 million in base salary to a signing bonus to help spread out the cost, a source told Schefter.

Brez writes it into every contract a Viking player signs apparently to give flexibility for just this kind of thing. If there's ever been a guy who is quieter about making a ton of money....because that's what its taken to keep Brez on this team after other franchise's have come calling the last 5+ years, I think you'd be hard pressed to find one. 

@"StickyBun" said:

@"Kentis" said: The team utilized a built in simple restructure in Kendrick’s contract to create cap space...  B)  shifting $6 million in base salary to a signing bonus to help spread out the cost, a source told Schefter.

Brez writes it into every contract a Viking player signs apparently to give flexibility for just this kind of thing. If there's ever been a guy who is quieter about making a ton of money....because that's what its taken to keep Brez on this team after other franchise's have come calling the last 5+ years, I think you'd be hard pressed to find one. 

Vikings always pay their guys. It was just a matter of time. Thought they might wait a few games, but Cook has been nothing but a team player. He was justly rewarded. $12M seems about right. Much more than the insulting $8M written about by a few in the media, but not the crazy money CMC and Zeke are getting. 

I'm betting the hit on this year's cap is minimal (Elliott's 1st year hit was $7M), absorbed by Kendricks renegotiating, and the following years will be absorbed by the likely departures of Reiff, Stephen, Rudy and either Harris or Harry (zero dead next year). 

@"MaroonBells" said: Vikings always pay their guys. It was just a matter of time. Thought they might wait a few games, but Cook has been nothing but a team player. He was justly rewarded. $12M seems about right. Much more than the insulting $8M written about by a few in the media, but not the crazy money CMC and Zeke are getting. 

I'm betting the hit on this year's cap is minimal (Elliott's 1st year hit was $7M), absorbed by Kendricks renegotiating, and the following years will be absorbed by the likely departures of Reiff, Stephen, Rudy and either Harris or Harry (zero dead next year). 

I'd rather have Dalvin Cook than any other RB in the NFL. I think everyone knows I'm not a purple goggles dude, so this isn't that. He's dynamic, powerful, shifty, fast and can catch. To me, the truly great RBs always press the line. They come SO close to the defenders but its all angles and physics: the closer you get to a defender, the easier it is to juke him and blow past him because he doesn't know where you are going so he has to hesitate that oh so important half second and that's all an elite RB like Cook needs. AP did the same type of thing, he pressed the line of scrimmage and defenders in the open field. AP was a different back, I'm just saying what they had in common was that pressing.

This is fantastic. Definitely wanted to see Cook remain on this team for years to come. It feels good to have him locked in before the season starts. 

Great news, was concerned about this not getting done. Now go out have a great year and stay healthy.

doing the happy dance

Great news. He’s a great RB and from everything we hear a great teammate. Very grateful. Can I say GREAT one more time?

Most of you are applauding and saying the Vikings' recent history shows they pay their good young players to stay. Well, if you're into history, Cook's indicates that he'll be healthy more than half a season only twice over this contract. As for the history of this team's management  - they have a history of winning 0 championships and damn few playoff games, even with Adrian Peterson for a decade. Time to do things differently, not keep repeating what has not worked.
But everyone else is happy, so I'll wait and see. If Cook has some great seasons along the way to the Vikings getting a title while he's here, I'll be very happy to eat crow.

I did not think this was going to happen with the Yannick trade. I guess this probably makes things tricky when it comes to working out deals with Yannick, Anthony Harris, and ONeill. I love Dalvin but the injuries make me lukewarm right now. I havent looked at the future cap today but it seems that we lose some key pieces moving forward

Good for him. One less contract to worry about.

Makes you really start to think about the personnel change down the road to fit the cap don't it?

Not surprised @ $12mm...NEVER was going to get done @ $8mm. I'll bet it stalled at $10/$11. 

When he's healthy he's one hell of a rb. Prototype for this era of NFL. Kamara too. 

I can't be the only one who's mentally started guessing which game he gets injured?  And next year, and 2022, and...

Hope I'm spectacularly wrong, but to me this seems likely to end up as

@"purplefaithful" said: Makes you really start to think about the personnel change down the road to fit the cap don't it?

Not surprised @ $12mm...NEVER was going to get done @ $8mm. I'll bet it stalled at $10/$11. 

When he's healthy he's one hell of a rb. Prototype for this era of NFL. Kamara too. 

And he's just scratching the surface. In terms of speed, he makes Kamara look like Rick Fenney. 

Rick Finney....

There's a name I hadn't heard in ages. 

Thx for the reminder..