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Kevin Safart
Egan, Min. , Minnesota Vikings Wrapped its final piece of offsen business on Saturday, signing security Josh metalus For a three -year contract expansion that ensures that he will spend his career wholesale with the team that made him the choice of the sixth round of draft in 2020.
According to ESPN’s Adam Skeffer, the deal is $ 36 million with a maximum value of $ 42 million, and includes a guarantee of $ 25 million. The current contract of metallus was determined to zero after this season.
“I am here, baby,” Metallus asked to kick a news conference before the training camp practice of the Vikings. “I’m here.”
Metallus was primarily a player of a special team during his first three sessions, but when he joined the defensive coordinator Brian Floors Vikings in 2023, he climbed in a multiplier role. Although listed as a security, Metellus played across the region. During some games, coaches Kevin O’Conel It was remembered on Saturday, the metalus has put a line on seven different positions. Over that period, Metallus started 27 games and played 90% of the defensive Snaps of Vikings.
“His journey is something that matters a lot to him,” O’Conel said. “You have found the first round pics, which eventually get their large -scale extensions, but some people do not come in this league with this type of path and they have got to earn it from where they are selected, and earn what their roles are hurrying in their time, and then finally when you develop this kind of value for our team, I think it’s really that it’s really.”
Pre -Vikings Security Camry Beenam In the last summer, the team’s overstitcher was rejected for a Presiden Extension and signed a contract of $ 60 million with four years instead Indianapolis colts This spring. Metallus said he could never imagine leaving himself, and when he sat out of some exercises during OTA and Minicamp, he refused to pressurize the Vikings in this summer.
Metallus participated in the initial practice of the training camp vikings, later said that he felt that it was his responsibility as a team leader. The ankle injury brought him out of practice on Thursday and Friday, but O’conal said that “we were honest”, about the diagnosis and the absence of metallus were not related to dialogue.
Speaking on Saturday, the metalus said there was no part of it to see if he could get a better deal in the next spring in the open market.
“I wanted to be here,” he said. “I love it here. This is a home. I want to end my career here. I feel like what I really want to make and I want to win for the city. I think the city is to be something big, so I am just putting everything that I have.”
Vikings have now committed to about $ 350 million cash for their 2025 roster, capital JJ McCarthi To get a dozen veterans either through free agency or business. They re -signed running back Aaron Jones SRCornerback Bayran Murphy Juniorand safety Harrison SmithAnd extended the current contract of lineback Andrew Van Ginkel,
