Hunter's Contract Situation 2.0 - one-year deal worth $20M

You mustve enjoyed that buffalo win a little too much and missed the rest of the year. Just total night and day, I dont care what the stats say , it went from Von Miller to Dj Wonnum. Guy was hurt and a ghost. First of all he wanted out anyway, they didnt really have a choice. But its far from the end of the world. 

He had the 18th most pressures after week 10. 23 in 7 games compared to the 34 Davenport had on the entire season.

Pretty big step back for a team that isn't rebuilding.

How many game saving plays did he have last year with his “meet at the QB” alter ego on the other side?

If he is the “second best player” then it would be fair to expect him to make game changing plays in crucial games. Otherwise he is just a “stat padder” according to some statheads on here.

From my understanding we don't get a comp pick if we lose Hunter next offseason. Because of the void years. I am glad he is back but for like 2 or 3 years. If we couldn't do a few years maybe we should have traded him, because I see him walking for nothing next year.

Now I am fair and going to let Kwezo do his thing before I come with fire Avatars, but this lukewarm stuff is weird. He waits so long to make decisions. He need to be more decisively make a decision and live with it. No reason to take so long when the Hunter issue been lingering. It is like he waits and waits until he is backed into a corner losing trade leverage.

Actually, Nick Korte of OvertheCap tweeted out over the weekend that Hunter is still eligible and slated to become a compensatory free agent (CFA) next offseason. His original extension stretched from 2019-2023, and it still does even with his recent pay raise and even if they add more void years to stretch out the cap hit.

Mathew Coller at Purple Insider also noted the same thing in an article from yesterday (link):
I believe the situations involving void years that make someone ineligible to be a CFA is if they have the void years replace extension years in a contract renegotiation, like the contract situation with Anthony Barr in 2021: the Vikings extended Barr for 5 years through the 2023 season, but in 2021 we renegotiated his contract to just a 1 yr deal for $8.6m (clearing $2.9m in cap space) and replaced the rest of the rest of the initial contract years with void years, which we "ate" in 2022. Barr was not a CFA in the 2022 offseason and he did not count as such for Minnesota when he signed with Dallas (plus, he signed in August 2022, well after the period in which eligible players count in the comp pick formula). 

Hunter bet on himself that he would perform well in Flores' defense in 2023 so he can cash-in during free agency in March 2024 like a 30+ year old Von Miller did in the 2022 offseason with Buffalo - that could still be with the Vikings, or if could be with someone else. If Hunter elects to sign with another team in 2024, the Vikings would be eligibe to receive a comp pick for Hunter in 2025 - assuming he signs prior to May (I believe that's the time when the comp pick period ends) and assuming the Vikings don't sign someone else in free agency to cancel that out. 

Love it, but yeah, seems like maybe Hunter's side was pushing for something more long-term?

Edit:

I thought they moved the trade deadline back ? Or was there just talks. Either way I really dont see it happening with us being that bad. I think a contender would pull the trigger regardless of the no tag clause. Teams are making more moves at deadline now to go all in that year, nothing is guaranteed the next year if you wait. Just a nice thing to have in the back pocket.