Minnesota Vikings key player J.J. McCarthy has terminated his contract that worth $76.2 million with…
The Minnesota Vikings are in the middle of their last round of voluntary offseason team activities this week. Many of the team’s veterans were given the week off, but attendance appears to be more mandatory than not, for youngsters like rookie quarterback J.J. McCarthy.
Getting McCarthy to show his face at TCO Performance Center hasn’t been a problem this offseason, according to head coach Kevin O’Connell, who told Rich Eisen on Monday that the future QB1 has impressed teammates and coaches with how obsessed he has been with getting onto the Eagan campus and working on his now-professional craft.
But according to a very popular account on X – Twitter (@prettyrickey213) that claims to be an NFL insider — and has broken some big Vikings news (see below) in the past — J.J. McCarthy is threatening to hold out of Vikings Training Camp, if he doesn’t get his entire rookie signing bonus up front, something he says the Vikings have never done before.