FARGO, N.D. -- Unless the Minnesota Vikings' experiment with Mike Wallace had turned out to be an unqualified success, it always stood the risk of being a one-year project. The Vikings sent a fifth-round pick to the Miami Dolphins a year ago to acquire a player scheduled to make $11.5 million in 2016. When players making that much are available in a trade for that little, and none of the money is guaranteed, things in the NFL have a way of changing quickly.
"It was more about money than anything else," coach Mike Zimmer said at the NFC coaches breakfast on Wednesday.