Vikings Rumors Lock In on Jordan Addison’s Contract, a Sour Trade, and Jonathan Greenard’s Rebuke
In mere hours, the Minnesota Vikings get their Week 4 festival underway in Ireland, matching up against Mike Tomlin’s Pittsburgh Steelers. But first — Sunday’s batch of purple rumors.
The second batch of Vikings rumors of the week brings Jordan Addison contract hubbub, a trade not trending right, and Jonathan Greenard’s beef.
Here’s the second segment of Vikings rumors this week for a team hoping to obtain a 3-1 record by bedtime.
Vikings Rumors | September 28th, 2025
The purple rumor mill for Week 4, the second edition.
Rumor: The Vikings tentatively plan to extend Jordan Addison’s contract next offseason.
Next offseason, the chatter about Jordan Addison’s impending contract extension will turn white-hot. We’re that close, and it’s coming.
And according to KSTP’s Darren Wolfson, Minnesota is trending to extend Addison, finding a way to keep he and Justin Jefferson on the same team — at substanial price points.
Wolfson said on SKOR North this week, “He is a number one receiver, but here, number two. Wait until you see the contract extension he will sign. The Vikings, have in their minds, this idea that they are going to pay Addison. Now could that change, could that shift? Sure. They feel like they hit on a first round pick.”
“The idea is in a pass first offense in many ways, that you want two dynamic receivers. Jordan Addison can get one of those Garrett Wilson-type contracts. If not more. Terry McLaurin, $30 million a year-plus. He is that good.”
The NFL’s market resets every year, and Addison will obviously be a part of the process. For now, players like Addison — Tee Higgins and Jaylen Waddle — earn around $28 million per season. If one thinks that Addison posts stellar numbers this year — he’ll be back from his suspension this weekend— he will almost certainly request $30 million annually from the purple team.
And the Vikings might just oblige. Traditionally, paying two wide receivers megabcuks is difficult, but with McCarthy’s rookie contract, Minnesota might get away with it for a few years.
Rumor: Minnesota’s trade for Adam Thielen looks iffy at the moment.
In August, Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah pulled off a splashy trade for Adam Thielen, a swap involving a 4th-Round pick to the Carolina Panthers. For now, the deal looks dicey.
Thielen has two receptions in three games — and a spiffy two-point conversion in Week 1.
That’s it.
Thielen has performed like Bisi Johnson or Trishton Jackson through three weeks, but that doesn’t mandate that the experiment is toast. He could rebound in Dublin or London this week or next and tally a game for the ages.
However, Thielen doesn’t typically encounter totally dry spells, hinting that the age-35 wall might’ve caught up with the beloved Viking. There’s also the element of building chemistry with two new quarterbacks: J.J. McCarthy and Carson Wentz. That’s a real thing in sports. Thielen simply hasn’t done it yet.
On the whole, out of the gate in the 2025 season, Minnesota is on the wrong end of the Thielen trade, and there’s just no other way around it.
Rumor: The Vikings’ locker room vibes were never “off,” per Jonathan Greenard.
One reporter claimed the Vikings’ locker room vibe was off heading into Week 3, a win over the Bengals. In short, that pissed Jonathan Greenard off.
Star Tribune’s Andrew Krammer remarked on the Purple Insider podcast before the 38-point win over Cincinnati: “This is a team that is desperate, which is weird to say for a 1-1 team, to use the word ‘desperate’, but vibes are not great. That’s at least what I’ve been sensing around the team.”
Greenard heard the comment and told the media after the Week 3 win, “I don’t know who said something, he’s not in here right now … said the vibes was off. It was the other guy in here, he was shorter, can’t remember his name. He said the vibes was off this week.”
“Completely false. Just because we’re working and probably weren’t in there the same times you guys were in there, I don’t know why he would put stuff out like that. The vibe is good. Just because we’re even keel and ready to get back to work doesn’t mean the vibes are down.”
Krammer later clarified that the vibe was off because no team enjoys losing.
Greenard continued, “We just understand that, listen, we didn’t like that performance last week. We put our heads down. What do we look like coming in here and smiling for and dancing for and talking all types of energy when we just put up that performance last week? Any time we get a dub, we just try to stay on this upward trend.”
Moral of the story? Don’t speak about Greenard’s locker room, he says. The vibes were fine, and the proof was evidently in the pudding when Minnesota thrashed Cincinnati by a score of 48-10.
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