The Minnesota Vikings officially restructured the contract of DE Danielle Hunter on Friday.
According to Courtney Cronin, the Vikings specifically converted $8 million of his $10.9 million 2020 base salary into a signing bonus that’s prorated over the deal.
Minnesota lowered Hunter’s 2020 cap figure to $9 million from $14.5 million, which will create around $6 million or so of cap space.
Hunter, 25, is a former third-round pick of the Vikings back in 2015. He was entering the final year of his four-year, $2.969 million rookie contract when Minnesota re-signed him to a five-year, $72 million extension that includes $40 million guaranteed to go along with a $15 million signing bonus.
He is entering the second year of his deal and was set to earn base salaries of $10,900,000 next season and $11,400,000 for the following three years.
In 2019, Hunter appeared in all 16 games and recorded 70 total tackles, 15 tackles for loss, 14.5 sacks, three forced fumbles and one fumble recovery.
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