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Kevin Seifert
EAGAN, Minn. — It is one factor to take a seat out a part of spring practices. It is fairly one other, Minnesota Vikings security Josh Metellus stated Wednesday, to overlook even a portion of coaching camp.
Metellus, one of many crew’s key defensive gamers over the previous two seasons, determined he wouldn’t prolong his spring hold-in into the beginning of summer time work. Regardless of not having an settlement on the contract extension he has been searching for, Metellus was a full participant within the Vikings’ first coaching camp apply on Wednesday.
“The dialogue’s been going good,” Metellus stated, “so I’m not too anxious about what is going on on. I am simply doing my half, being right here for the crew, attempting to be a pacesetter, a captain, and I can not do this on the sideline. An enormous half is that the man I’m on this constructing is the man who’s out in entrance main the way in which, so it is not sensible for me to not [participate].”
Metellus signed a three-year contract extension in 2023 that may void after this season. This spring, he sat out 7-on-7 drills, which had been probably the most intense durations of the Vikings’ apply plan.
His method left open the likelihood he might proceed to cut back his participation till the edges agree on a brand new deal or a wage improve for 2025, however he stated it is too near the beginning of the season, in his thoughts, to do this.
“I did the work, man,” Metellus stated. “The previous two years, I performed 2,000-plus snaps, and that is all I acquired to go on. Individuals can say no matter they need, up and down, in regards to the type of participant I’m, however on the finish of the day, the tape do not haven’t any sound.”
