2022 Offseason Discussion - moves, stats, pressers, misc.

Kirk's $31.4m cap hit for 2022 represents approx 15% of the Vikings 2022 cap ($31.4m / $208.2m = 15.1%). Per a Spotrac article in early Feb 2022 (link), only 2 QB's since 2000 have reached the Super Bowl with a cap % at 15% or higher: Peyton Manning in 2009 with IND and Matt Ryan in 2016 with ATL.

Top 10 Super Bowl QB Cap Percentages (per Spotrac):

2009: Peyton Manning (IND): 18.8%
2016: Matt Ryan (ATL): 15.3%
2013: Peyton Manning (DEN): 14.16%
2021: Tom Brady (TB): 12.61%
2018: Tom Brady (NE): 12.42%
2015: Peyton Manning (DEN): 12.21%
2011: Eli Manning (NYG): 11.71%
2014: Tom Brady (NE): 11.13%
2011: Tom Brady (NE): 10.76%
2007: Eli Manning (NYG): 10.75%

There have been 22 Super Bowls since 2000, so that means 44 QB have made it in those 22 years (yes I know some made it more than once, but this relates to a QB's cap hit during that year so each instance is unique), so if there's only been 2 instances in which a QB has made it making up at least 15% of a team's cap space, that means it happens about 5% of the time (2 times out of 44 instances = 4.5%).

Regardless of whether you call the team's decision to continue rolling with Kirk "overused" or not, the chances of getting over that proverbial hump with Kirk isn't that great...if making it to the Super Bowl is the definition of getting over the hump, that is, and to many Viking fans it is when you're entering Yr 5 under Kirk.