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Vikings Legend Didn’t Want to Leave

If Adam Thielen personally scripted the future, he’d still play for the Minnesota Vikings, the team that discovered him via undrafted free agency 10 years ago.

The Vikings released Thielen in March, and he signed with the Carolina Panthers for three years and $25 million.

Vikings Legend Didn’t Want to Leave

Thielen appeared on the Daily Delivery podcast this week and explained his Vikings exodus, “I think there are like two sides of it. It was a bummer. I didn’t want to leave Minnesota. I wanted to end my career there. Obviously, that would be the perfect fairy-tale way to do it, right?