in 2015, Vikings safety Harrison Smith enters the fourth year of his contract. If the 29th pick in 2012 had been selected four spots lower, it would be the final year of his contract.
Thanks to the fifth-year option, it’s not.
“I’m obviously not a fan of the fifth-year option,” Smith said Monday, via Mark Craig of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “Agents and teams know a lot more than I do, but it does kind of seem like a weird deal for the first-rounders. I just think that part of the CBA was poorly done.