What does this mean for the Vikings?
Free agency will kick off in the National Football League in just under two weeks, and the league has given all of the teams the last piece of information they’ll need before the spending frenzy gets underway.
The league has officially announced that the salary cap for the 2025 season will be set at $279.2 million.
That means that, as things stand right now, the Minnesota Vikings will be sitting on approximately $63 million heading into free agency. That is more available space than all but six other teams, which should give the Vikings some room to make quite a bit of noise.
The salary cap has increased right around 80% over the course of the last decade. The cap for the 2016 season was $155.3 million. That’ll happen when you’re the sort of phenomenon that the NFL has become not only in this country, but around the world.
Based on projections, the franchise tag figure for quarterbacks will be right around $40 million, which is what we’ve been expecting all along. So, if the Vikings do intend to use the tag on Sam Darnold, then they. . .or whichever team they might be interested in trading him to. . .will know exactly what they’re dealing with.
We’ll be keeping an eye on things with our favorite team as free agency gets closer, but now we know exactly how much money Rob Brzezinski and company will be working with when things do kick off on 12 March.
