{"id":801483,"date":"2026-03-09T03:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/801483\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T03:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:09:15","slug":"vikings-emerge-as-favorite-to-sign-kyler-murray-when-hes-officially-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/801483\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings emerge as favorite to sign Kyler Murray when he’s officially released"},"content":{"rendered":"

Until the new league year kicks off on Wednesday, Kyler Murray<\/a> is still officially an Arizona Cardinal.<\/p>\n

After that? Well, the Minnesota Vikings have emerged as the favorite to sign the soon-to-be free-agent quarterback, NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero reported Sunday on The Insiders.<\/p>\n

The Vikings and Murray have been viewed as a stellar fit since the Cardinals informed<\/a> the 2019 No. 1 overall pick he would be released. However, Pelissero noted that he expects the market to be a robust one for Murray’s services.<\/p>\n

“If you’re Kyler and his agent, it makes a lot of sense to take advantage of this,” Pelissero said. “He’s never been a free agent before. He’s not interfaced with a lot of teams and executives since he selected in the draft back in 2019 and for Kyler, who’s going to be a free agent in 2027 after taking a one-year minimum deal this year it makes sense \u2026 to take his time and explore his options here before deciding to take the next important step in his career.”<\/p>\n

As noted by Pelissero, Murray is due $36.8 million in guarantees from Arizona in 2026, so it’s expected that he’ll ink a one-year pact with his next squad for a league minimum deal, just as Russell Wilson<\/a> did when he joined the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2024 after he was cut by the Denver Broncos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Until the new league year kicks off on Wednesday, Kyler Murray is still officially an Arizona Cardinal. After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[390,1227,7,4827,259,88,6,609,4267],"class_list":{"0":"post-801483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-arizona-cardinals","9":"tag-around-the-nfl","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-kyler-murray","12":"tag-minnesota-vikings","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-no-minute","16":"tag-offseason-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116197023218482217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}