November 24th, 2009 
Adam Warwas 
Posted in It was requested in the previous section that I provide you with a list of Vikings free agents. Ages listed are as of September 1, 2010. Here is the list for 2010:
- Tarvaris Jackson, QB, age 27
- Chester Taylor, RB, Age 30
- Fahu Tahi, FB, Age 28
- Ryan Cook, OL, Age 27
- Artis Hicks, OL, Age 31
- Ray Edwards, DE, Age 25
- Fred Evans, DT, Age 26
- Karl Paymah, CB, Age 27
- Eric Frampton, S, Age 25 (Restricted)
There are probably a few other players who are free agents that I haven’t listed here, for whom little contract info is available. Jon Cooper, Greg Lewis, Benny Sapp, and Kenny Onatulo all come to mind. Also, depending on the Collective Bargaining Agreement outcome, more of these players could become restricted.
The Vikings like to draft players to fill needs one year out (Tyrell Johnson for Darren Sharper, John Sullivan for Matt Birk) so here is a list of 2011 free agent:
- Brett Favre, QB, Age 40
- Sidney Rice, WR, Age 24
- Brian Robison, DE, Age 27
- Jayme Mitchell, DE, Age 26
- Pat Williams, DT, Age 37
- Chad Greenway, OLB, Age 27
- Ben Leber, OLB, Age 31
- Erin Henderson, OLB, Age 24 (restricted)
- Husain Abdullah, S, Age 25
- Ryan Longwell, K, Age 36
UPDATE: I also have Benny Sapp, Darus Reynaud, Jaymar Johnson, Albert Young, and Jimmy Kennedy as free agents in 2010… though there is so little info available on their contracts that I am not 100% positive of this.
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Thanks Adam. I believe the most important person on the list is Ryan Cook. We need him back the most of anyone on that list.
Go Vikes
For sure. Perhaps they should franchise him. If anyone deserves it…
On the first list I would say goodbye to Jackson, Tahi, Cook for sure. On the second list I would say goodbye to Mitchell and Henderson.
I think Taylor, Tahi, Cook, and Paymah are gone in the 2010 part.
Way too early to predict on 2011, but I will say Favre, Mitchell, Williams, Leber, Henderson, Longwell are all sent packing.
Vike Special Teams 2009 rank 1st
Vike Special Teams 2008 rank last
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/teamst2008
Who was it said not to hire that Special Teams coach? Nevermind…
Was under the impression that Jimmy Kennedy was also a Free Agent next year.
I believe you are right, Lost. I have a more complete list available to me, but need won’t be able to get to it until tonight. I’ll update this article ASAP.
RYAN COOOOOK NEEDS TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!