{"id":852424,"date":"2026-04-04T01:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/852424\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T01:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:56:18","slug":"latest-contract-extension-gives-minnesota-vikings-a-blueprint-for-how-to-keep-jonathan-greenard-long-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/852424\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest contract extension gives Minnesota Vikings a blueprint for how to keep Jonathan Greenard long-term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings have been open to shopping <a href=\"https:\/\/atozsports.com\/nfl\/minnesota-vikings-news\/jonathan-greenard-trade-value-brian-burns-bradley-chubb-micah-parsons-khalil-mack\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">edge rusher Jonathan Greenard<\/a> on the trade market. The only reason why they had been willing to is Greenard wanting a raise after two really good seasons with the Vikings.<\/p>\n<p>Greenard signed a four-year, $76 million contract during the 2024 offseason and immediately made an impact with 84 pressures and 12.5 sacks. He finished just a few votes short of earning All-Pro honors.<\/p>\n<p>That new contract hasn\u2019t come yet, and it <a href=\"https:\/\/atozsports.com\/nfl\/minnesota-vikings-news\/future-minnesota-vikings-edge-jonathan-greenard-could-have-similar-fate-tj-hockenson-josh-metellus-danielle-hunter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">likely won\u2019t be resolved until training camp<\/a>. It\u2019s relatively easy to solve it, and the latest news in the NFL could help expedite that.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTravon Walker\u2019s extension can help Vikings keep Jonathan Greenard<\/p>\n<p>News broke on Friday afternoon that the Jacksonville Jaguars gave Travon Walker a massive extention worth $27.5 million average annual value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Vikings have been open to shopping edge rusher Jonathan Greenard on the trade market. The only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[7,233,259,2529,6,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-852424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-vikings","11":"tag-minnesotavikings","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116343956965177005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852424","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=852424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}