Vikings Ranked Near Top of NFL in Future Salary Cap Health

This regime inherited a bit of a sh it show, cap wise. 

Still more work to do, but there is no doubt it's trending the right way.

Its not an easy thing to do with a decent QB who's not on a rook contract. 

@"PurpleCrush" said: https://www.si.com/nfl/vikings/news/vikings-ranked-near-top-nfl-future-salary-cap-health

PFF's Brad Spielberger recently ranked all 32 teams by their salary cap health, and the Vikings checked in near the top of the league at 6th.
The rankings were determined using five criteria: Top 51 veteran valuation, active draft capital, 2023-25 cap space, total prorated money, and 2024 free agent valuation. It's worth checking out the article for the full numbers and details on what each category means, but here are the basics. 

• Top 51 veteran valuation: The total value of a team's top 51 players, excluding 2023 draft picks. The Vikings rank 9th in this category.
• Active draft capital: The total value of a team's rookie-contract players, including 2023 draft picks. The Vikings rank 11th.
• 2023-25 cap space: Pretty straightforward. These are projections for a team's effective cap space this year and in the next two offseasons. The Vikings rank 9th. 
• Total prorated money: Dead cap space. Sunk costs a team has to work around. The Vikings rank 9th. 
• 2024 free agent valuation: The value each team is set to lose in free agency next year. The Vikings rank 27th.

The rolling rebuild has caused alot of angst, but you really have to respect how Kwesi has done it.  Ultimately the success or failure of this regime will be personnell decisions, but KAM is positioning the chess pieces he wants and positioning the cap to pull it off. 

@"purplefaithful" said: This regime inherited a bit of a sh it show, cap wise. 

Still more work to do, but there is no doubt it's trending the right way.

Its not an easy thing to do with a decent QB who's not on a rook contract. 

the magic will be when he can do it with a team that is built to compete with a quality QB that is not on a rookie deal.  a crappy team with cap space is no big challenge, or a good team with a rookie QB the same,  but when you can have a defense that gets it done as well as an offense that is top 5-7 scoring,  then we have something.

Well duh, we dont have a plan at QB right now. 

Kudos on the clean up. Gotta keep working on this and make some progress 

Wonder how this will look if/when they extend JJ/Hunter/Cousins/Hock/Darrisaw.  Actually a pretty good problem to have.

@"RS Express" said: Wonder how this will look if/when they extend JJ/Hunter/Cousins/Hock/Darrisaw.  Actually a pretty good problem to have.

That's just it. It looks great now, but we haven't done anything at all with our pending contracts. Even Brian O'Neill. We could've saved about $10M on the cap just by restructuring his deal. We didn't do it. Guessing that's because we weren't certain yet what future years were going to look like considering the pending contracts for the players you mention.

Makes me think Kwesi is taking a holistic approach to the contract picture instead of trying to knock them out one at a time. 

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"RS Express" said: Wonder how this will look if/when they extend JJ/Hunter/Cousins/Hock/Darrisaw.  Actually a pretty good problem to have.

That's just it. It looks great now, but we haven't done anything at all with our pending contracts. Even Brian O'Neill. We could've saved about $10M on the cap just by restructuring his deal. We didn't do it. Guessing that's because we weren't certain yet what future years were going to look like considering the pending contracts for the players you mention.

Makes me think Kwesi is taking a holistic approach to the contract picture instead of trying to knock them out one at a time. 

It should be no surprise that we’re good in this
metric.  We have a reasonably talented
roster currently mostly on rookie contracts and we’re not committed to paying
hardly any of our good players right now. 
Cousins, Hunter, Jefferson, Hockenson, etc.  all need to be paid shortly or allowed to
leave.  Darrisaw we’ve got a few years of
cheap left.  Will we still be “cap
healthy” after we pay Hunter, Jefferson, and Hockenson?  Are we “cap healthy” if we don’t have a QB or
edge player on the roster for 2024?  Are
we “cap healthy” enough to be able to field a SB competitive team?