Minnesota Vikings Free Agents

The Minnesota Vikings offseason started about four weeks too early. Still, it’s started. With significant salary cap space, it should be a very active offseason. That activity starts with addressing the team’s own free agents. They have a bunch of them.

Minnesota Vikings Free Agents

Cam Akers, RB

Jonathan Bullard, DL

Cam Bynum, S

Sam Darnold, QB

Dan Feeney, G

Stephon Gilmore, CB

Shaquill Griffin, CB

Kamu Grugier-Hill, LB

Theo Jackson, S

Aaron Jones, RB

Daniel Jones, QB

Patrick Jones II, OLB

Fabian Moreau, CB

Nick Mullens, QB

Johnny Mundt, TE

Byron Murphy Jr., CB

David Quessenberry, OT

Brandon Powell, WR

Dalton Risner, G

Cam Robinson, OT

Trent Sherfield Sr., WR

Jerry Tillery, DL

Jihad Ward, OLB

Ryan Wright, P

Much of the free agent attention is on the quarterbacks. Shocking. It’s always about the quarterbacks. For me, the Vikings free agents talk starts with Cam Bynum and Byron Murphy Jr. I’d like to see both back. I’d also like to see Harrison Smith back. He’ll celebrate his 36th birthday in a couple weeks. If Brian Flores returns as the Vikings defensive coordinator, I could see Smith returning. If Flores gets one of the available head coach jobs, I expect Smith to retire. That’ll be a sad day for all Vikings fans. He’s been a brilliant football player for every one of his 13 seasons in Minnesota. 

Now, how about those quarterbacks? From Week 1 to Week 17, Sam Darnold played his way to a lucrative contract with one of the quarterback needy teams. The Vikings are not one of those teams. The Kwesi Adofo-Mensah - Kevin O’Connell regime have been building since they were hired in 2022 to this moment. They have the opportunity to move forward with a hand-selected, highly-drafted quarterback on a rookie deal. This is J.J. McCarthy’s team now. I’m hoping that Daniel Jones can be signed to a contract similar to the contract that Darnold signed last season. The Vikings need a veteran quarterback to backup and assist McCarthy. I hope that quarterback is Jones. 

After Bynum, Murphy, and hopefully Jones, there are a number of free agents that it’d be nice to have back.

Cam Akers

Jonathan Bullard

Theo Jackson

Johnny Mundt

Trent Sherfield Sr.

Jerry Tillery

Jihad Ward

The Vikings have a lot of free agents. They have a lot of decisions to make. I think that most of those decisions are pretty easy. Fortunately, those decisions aren’t mine to make.