EAGAN, Minn. — The Minnesota Vikings added offensive deal with Ryan Van Demark on Friday, giving them necessary depth after each of their beginning tackles handled accidents in 2025.
Van Demark was a restricted free agent after spending most of his profession with the Buffalo Payments, who had tendered him on the lowest degree. That gave the Payments the fitting of first refusal on the Vikings’ one-year, $4.2 million fully-guaranteed supply sheet, however on Friday the Payments despatched phrase that they’d decline to match. The Payments is not going to obtain compensation, in response to ESPN’s Alaina Getzenberg.
Beginning left deal with Christian Darrisaw missed seven video games final season as he labored by way of the ultimate phases of restoration from two torn ligaments in his left knee, initially suffered in October 2024. Of the ten video games Darrisaw did play in 2025, he left 5 early as a part of his restoration course of. The Vikings shut him down in Week 16 and positioned him on injured reserve Dec. 19.
After the season, former normal supervisor Kwesi Adofo-Mensah stated the Vikings would have to be “extra conscious” of getting insurance coverage behind him in 2026.
Proper deal with Brian O’Neill missed three video games whereas coping with numerous illnesses as effectively.
Undrafted out of Connecticut, Van Demark spent the 2022 season on the Payments’ follow squad and went on to start out six video games over the following three seasons.
