Perhaps the most exciting purple news from the week was the Everson Griffen signing.
Initially, the contract details weren’t known, but the safe money (pun intended) was on a modest deal. Even still, it’s at least somewhat surprising to see Griffen making so little:
Shortly thereafter, Cronin provides further clarity on the Griffen deal, explaining that the cap charge for getting placed on the IR would actually be a mere $465,000. The good people at Over the Cap have already put Griffen’s deal into their Minnesota Vikings salary cap page.