{"id":447616,"date":"2023-07-31T07:15:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T11:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=447616"},"modified":"2023-07-31T07:17:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T11:17:39","slug":"vikings-break-hunter-stalemate-with-an-improved-offer","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/vikings-break-hunter-stalemate-with-an-improved-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings break Hunter stalemate with an improved offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings have given <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/danielle-hunter\/\">Danielle Hunter<\/a> a hefty pay raise, paving the way for the team\u2019s best pass rusher to participate in practice after a months-long contract negotiations that were constantly coming to a dead end.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings announced Sunday on their website that they reached a new deal with Hunter, the three-time Pro Bowl pick with 71 sacks who will turn 29 in three months.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Kevin O\u2019Connell said Saturday that Hunter has been \u201cin the building\u201d and that they\u2019ve been in \u201cdaily dialogue\u201d about his physical and mental preparation before the season start.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">With the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Vikings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Vikings<\/a> agreeing to terms with Danielle Hunter on a new 1-year deal worth up to $20M, per me and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TomPelissero<\/a>, Hunter isn\u2019t going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter gets $17M fully guaranteed, plus a no franchise or transition tag provision. Deal done by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZekeSandhu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ZekeSandhu<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KlutchSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@KlutchSports<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c6R4FPPNVB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/c6R4FPPNVB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1685635930491887617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/danielle-hunter\/\">Danielle Hunter<\/a> is a very special player, and as soon as we can get him out here, you guys will see him out here,\u201d O\u2019Connell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings have given Danielle Hunter a hefty pay raise, paving the way for the team\u2019s best pass rusher to participate in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":451269,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20679,17167],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[20680,18175],"acf":{"announce":"He signs new 1-year deal with Minnesota after long negotiations ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447616"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=447616"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=447616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}