If Teddy Bridgewater’s career with the Vikings is to continue, the team will have to sign him to a new deal for the 2018 season.
League sources said on Tuesday morning that the NFL Management Council has decided not to toll the quarterback’s 2017 contract into the new league year, resolving a potentially contentious issue after Bridgewater’s 2016 knee injury caused him to begin the 2017 season on the physically-unable-to-perform list. Bridgewater is set to become a free agent on March 14.
The NFL’s collective bargaining agreement says a player on the PUP list and in the final year of his contract will have his deal tolled “if he is still physically unable to perform his football services as of the sixth regular season game.