Whereas NFL free agency remains to be ongoing, most Minnesota Vikings followers have turned their consideration to the 2025 NFL Draft, which is lower than 5 weeks away.
4 Largest Losers from Vikings Free Company
The group has not disenchanted in free company, including a couple of dozen new gamers and constructing the trenches alongside the best way.
And because the depth chart takes form, these are 5 huge losers from Vikings free company — gamers who did “nothing” in free company however watched as their 2025 inventory fell. They’re listed alphabetically.
1. Ty Chandler (RB)
The Vikings traded for Jordan Mason one week in the past, a transfer to stabilize the 2025 working again room.
The transfer added intense, unexpected working again depth to the purple roster after the membership re-signed Jones to a two-year extension in early March. As of March nineteenth, these halfbacks are below contract for 2025:
- Aaron Jones
- Jordan Mason
- Ty Chandler
- Zavier Scott
It additionally signaled a assured RB3 submit for Chandler, who may’ve personally sized up the RB2 job with no Mason commerce.
The Mason commerce, for higher or worse, made Chandler a 2025 offseason “loser.” He could possibly be launched throughout roster trimdowns in August.
2. Dwight McGlothern (CB)
McGlothern isn’t flat out of luck or something of the kind.
It’s simply that the Vikings signed two cornerbacks, Isaiah Rodgers and Jeff Okudah, that will hold him stationary on the depth chart. Earlier than free company, McGlothern was really the second cornerback on the depth chart.
Now, he’s CB4 or CB5. Had Minnesota not added Rodgers or Okudah, McGlothern would’ve emerged from March as a free company “winner.”
No cigar.
3. Jalen Nailor (WR)
Minnesota signed one other speedy extensive receiver — identical to Nailor — this week in Rondale Moore.
Until Moore completely underwhelms this summer season at coaching camp and within the postseason, he’ll battle Nailor for the WR3 job in 2025. Till the Moore free-agent addition, Nailor’s job safety sat fairly. Kwesi Adofo-Mensah didn’t signal any big-name pass-catchers like Amari Cooper, Cooper Kupp, or Stefon Diggs.
However by way of free company’s second tier, Moore turned purple, and Nailor should now look over his shoulder.
4. Jalen Redmond (DT)
An ex-UFLer, Redmond loved a mini-breakout marketing campaign with the 2024 Vikings, morphing right into a sudden tackle-for-loss savant and displaying sufficient pattern to show his manufacturing wasn’t unintentional.
But, in free company, Adofo-Mensah added Jonathan Allen and Javon Hargrave, two males who will immediately minimize into Redmond’s would-be taking part in time.
Redmond will seemingly nonetheless make the 53-man roster, however it could be fairly odd for him to outsnap Allen or Hargrave.
The Full Group
These gamers joined the Vikings in free company:
- Isaiah Rodgers (CB, Eagles) — 2 Years, $15 Million
- Bubba Bolden (S) — 1Year, $840 Thousand
- Ryan Kelly (C, Colts) — 2 Years, $18 Million
- Jonathan Allen (DT, Commanders) — 3 Years, $60 Million
- Will Fries (G, Colts) — 5 Years, $88 Million
- Javon Hargrave (DT, 49ers) — 2 Years, $30 Million
- Tavierre Thomas (CB, Buccaneers) — 1 Yr, $2 Million
- Justin Skule (OT, Buccaneers)
- Eric Wilson (LB, Packers)
- Jeff Okudah (CB, Texans)
- Rondale Moore (WR, Falcons)
And these males left for brand new groups:
- Nick Mullens (QB) to Jaguars (2 Years, $6.5 Million)
- Sam Darnold (QB) to Seahawks (3 Years, $100.5 Million)
- Camryn Bynum (S) to Colts (4 Years, $60 Million)
- Johnny Mundt (TE) to Jaguars (2 Years, $5.5 Million)
- Patrick Jones II (OLB) to Panthers (2 Years, $20 Million)
- Daniel Jones (QB) to Colts (1 Yr, $14 Million)
- Trent Sherfield (WR) to Broncos (2 Years, $8 Million)
- Jerry Tillery (DT) to Chiefs (1 Yr, $2.75 Million)
- Garrett Bradbury (C) to Patriots (2 Years, $12 Million)
- Cam Robinson (OT) to Texans (1 Yr, $14.5 Million)
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his each day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options friends, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple group, with 4-7 episodes per week. His Vikings obsession dates again to 1996. Listed responsible pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, ‘The Sopranos,’ Basset Hounds, and The Doorways (the band). He follows the NBA as intently as the NFL.
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