NFC Notes: Lions, Packers, Vikings

Lions

  • Lions OL Evan Brown‘s deal includes: $2.05 million contract extension, $600,000 signing bonus, $1.2 million base salary, up to $200,000 per game active roster bonus, $1 million playtime incentive. (Aaron Wilson)
  • Lions S Tracy Walker‘s three-year, $25 million deal includes a $6.965 million signing bonus and base salaries of $1.035 million, $8.95 million and $7.95 million. (Wilson)
  • His 2022 base and $8 million of his 2023 base is guaranteed, with the remaining $950,000 in 2023 guaranteed for injury and fully guaranteed the third day of the 2023 league year. (Over The Cap)
  • Wilson adds Walker has a $100,000 annual incentive for making the Pro Bowl. 
  • Lions LB Alex Anzalone‘s one-year deal includes a $715,000 signing bonus, $1.035 guaranteed base salary, up to $500,000 in per-game active roster bonuses and another $1.75 million in incentives for playing time and team achievements. (Wilson)
  • Walker on re-signing with the team: “The coaching staff played a very huge role in me coming back. My teammates, as well. I just see where everything is going here.” (Chris Burke)

Packers

  • Rob Demovsky reports that it appears the Packers will keep K Mason Crosby for 2022.
  • Ryan Wood reports that there haven’t been any breakthroughs in possible contract talks between the Packers and WR Marquez Valdes-Scantling.
  • Jordan Schultz says the Packers offered WR Davante Adams over $23 million per year yet he declined it and remains unwilling to play under the franchise tag.
  • PFN’s Aaron Wilson reports Packers LB De’Vondre Campbell‘s five-year, $50 million deal includes a $15 million signing bonus and base salaries of $1.05 million, $1.45 million, $6.95 million, $7.75 million and $7.775 million. 
  • There’s a $3 million roster bonus in 2023 and a $2.9 million roster bonus in 2024, each due on the third day of the league year. Campbell can make up to $2.45 million in per-game active roster bonuses through the length of the deal. 
  • There is a $50,000 workout bonus in 2022, then $400,000 annual workout bonuses the rest of the deal, as well as an annual $250,000 escalator clause. (Wilson)

Vikings

  • The Vikings will not be re-signing G Dakota Dozier to a new contract this offseason and have informed him so. (Chris Tomasson)
  • Tomasson reports that there is  “definitely a chance” of backup QB Sean Mannion being re-signed by the Vikings.
  • Vikings QB Kirk Cousins on negotiating an extension with the team: “It was a positive back and forth over a few days. Kwesi was outstanding. Was really strong communicating to me. Was upfront.” (Tomasson)
  • Cousins was asked if ever thought he could be traded by the Vikings: “I was very confident that I was going to be a Minnesota Viking. My wife would ask me. ‘What do you think?’ And Iโ€™d just say ‘You know this league is crazy. Anything can happen. Iโ€™ve watched it too many times to believe otherwise but if Iโ€™m a betting man I expect to be back with the Vikings and expect to be back not only for the coming season but for a long time.'” (Chris Tomasson)

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