After days of waiting for Marcus Davenport’s contract to be officially signed, the Minnesota Vikings have finally finished getting the financials of the new deal figured out, and are reportedly aiming to hold the defensive end’s introductory press conference on Thursday.
Per a Vikings rep, the Marcus Davenport contract was signed yesterday. It has been submitted to the league. It should show up on the wire today. The team hopes to have a press conference on Thursday.
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) March 21, 2023
News officially broke about Davenport’s intention to sign with the team on the first day of the legal tampering period last Monday, and details about his new contract were released over the weekend. Still, it seems that the exact language of the deal, and some of the finer points of the structure of the contract took some time to figure out, but the saga seems to have come to an end.
The importance of this signing can’t be understated for Minnesota, and the wait for everything to become officially official should prove to be worth the hassle. Davenport was a blue chip prospect when he entered the draft as a collegiate prospect, and has a track record of production that was unrivaled in the 2023 free agent class.
