Two years ago, before a brief contract impasse led to the Vikings fielding trade offers for Kyle Rudolph, the Pro Bowl tight end said that he was confident he and the organization agreed about his value and that a new deal would keep him in Minnesota. That prediction came true, as Rudolph and the Vikings eventually agreed to a four-year, $36 million extension in June 2019.
Rudolph, a team captain and the Vikings' longest-tenured player, had a different tone during a recent conversation with former Vikings linebacker Ben Leber, now a sideline analyst for KFAN, on Leber's podcast "Unrestricted.