Are there any good free agents left for the Vikings?!?!?!?!
Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast
Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fandul, Matthew Collar here. |
| 0:27.9 | And in this episode, we dive into remaining free agents. |
| 0:31.9 | Are there a surprising amount or are they all gone? |
| 0:35.0 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:36.5 | All right, over the beginning of free agency, |
| 0:39.2 | what way would we describe the Minnesota Vikings? |
| 0:42.6 | Inactive would be probably the best way. |
| 0:45.2 | The Vikings have not exactly gone to the free agent market |
| 0:49.1 | to rebuild the franchise. |
| 0:50.9 | They have kept a lot of their own players, |
| 0:53.2 | the long snapper, Andrew DePaula, |
| 0:55.5 | all pro, Eric Wilson, of course, one of the best stories of last year. They kept Aaron Jones, |
| 1:00.9 | they reworked the contract of T.J. Hawkinson, and they added Kyler Murray. So it's not like |
| 1:06.2 | they have done absolutely nothing. In fact, they have set themselves up in the future for a better salary |
| 1:12.8 | cap situation with the way they handled some of their deals. And also with the fact that they |
| 1:18.1 | only restructured a couple of contracts just to get to the point of being cap compliant, but they |
| 1:24.2 | did not restructure every cap hit that they possibly could under the sun and kick all that money down into the future. |
| 1:31.4 | So it matters what the Vikings have done. |
| 1:34.3 | But if you were hoping that this free agency period would be like last year and that they were going to go and add a bunch of players, well, you've been pretty sorely disappointed. |
| 1:44.2 | However, as I started to go through the remaining free agent list, I found some guys that could |
| 1:49.9 | be helpful. |
| 1:50.7 | Now, that doesn't mean I found some guys that are going to change the Minnesota Vikings next |
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