At some point in the next two and a half months, the Minnesota Vikings will have to make a decision on the fifth-year option on the rookie contract of wide receiver Jordan Addison. Picking up that option is never cheap for any player, but for Addison it isn’t quite as bad as it potentially could have been. The folks over at Spotrac have their estimates for the fifth-year option cost for each player selected in the first round of the 2023 NFL Draft, and have projected Addison’s price tag to come in at $17.579 million. If the Vikings were to pick up that option, that salary would be fully guaranteed for the 2027 season. As a Tier 3 player, the price for Addison’s fifth-year option is equal to the average salary of the third through twentieth-highest paid players at his position, which is how Spotrac arrived at the figure that they did.

Source: New York Times February 11, 2026 19:59 UTC