The Vikings' most significant move of the NFL offseason, made late Wednesday afternoon, means they'll be under the league's lowered salary cap when free agency starts on March 17.
It also means they'll have a new left tackle in 2021.
The team released veteran Riley Reiff on Wednesday afternoon, cutting the 32-year-old they'd initially hoped they would be able to bring back on a new deal that would lower his salary cap number for 2021. Instead, the Vikings cut Reiff in a move that saved them more than $11 million in cap space on the day the NFL set its salary ceiling for the 2021 league year.