Retaining Van Ginkel, 29, at that value is a discount for Minnesota. Final season, Van Ginkel had a career-best year, receiving his first Professional Bowl and All-Professional (second-team) honors and ending seventh in Related Press Defensive Participant of the Yr voting.
The 2019 fifth-round decide posted career-highs in sacks (11.5) and tackles (79), and had two interceptions (he returned each for touchdowns), six passes defended and one pressured fumble.
Browns defensive finish Myles Garrett established the market defensive ends when he signed a four-year contract extension value a median annual worth (AAV) of $40M earlier this offseason.
Per Spotrac, Van Ginkel’s $23.5M AAV extension would rank eighth amongst defensive ends in 2025. With Bengals edge Trey Hendrickson and Jaguars edge Travon Walker among the many gamers who might additionally signal extensions this offseason, Van Ginkel would possibly quickly drop out of the highest 10.
Whereas it is a whole lot for the Vikings, it is nonetheless the kind of cash crew’s give to gamers they count on to play a major variety of snaps.
In 2024, Van Ginkel performed 81.2% Minnesota’s defensive snaps, adopted carefully by fellow exterior linebacker Jonathan Greenard (80.8%), who signed a four-year, $76M contract as a 2024 free-agent.
With each below contract by means of at the very least 2026, Turner, who solely performed in 26.4% of his out there defensive snaps as a rookie, might have issue leaping Minnesota’s higher-priced veterans on the depth chart.
Final 12 months, Turner had 20 tackles (12 solo), three sacks and an interception, respectable numbers for a rookie function participant.
Turner was one in all two Vikings first-round picks in final 12 months’s draft, becoming a member of No. 10 decide quarterback J.J. McCarthy.
Throughout the first spherical of the 2024 NFL Draft, the Vikings forked over a 2024 first that they had beforehand acquired from the Texans (No. 23 total), which become extensive receiver Brian Thomas Jr., a 2025 third (cornerback Caleb Ransaw) and 2025 fourth spherical decide (operating again Dylan Sampson) to the Jaguars to maneuver up six spots and choose Turner at No. 17.
Groups can by no means have sufficient pass-rushers. Depth on the place is a should. However the Vikings most likely did not surrender what it did for Turner simply to have him to take a seat on the bench for almost all of his first two, probably three, seasons. If Van Ginkel lives as much as his contract extension, he would possibly.
