Buffalo Bills Eye Star Recruit for Upset Play Against Vikings
It's not one of the most common aspects of free agency.
Bills could lose veteran to Vikings over $700,000 contract difference originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Buffalo Bills and Minnesota Vikings find themselves in one of the less common aspects of free agency at the moment.
It involves Ryan Van Demark, restricted free agency and an offer sheet. Van Demark, the big offensive lineman, entered this offseason as a restricted free agency. That gave the Bills the opportunity to give him a qualifying tender, which they did -- it's for one year and $3.
5 million. As an RFA, though, Van Demark can still negotiate with other teams, and evidently did so. The Vikings made him an offer of one-year, $4.
2 million, according to Aaron Wilson . The key to restricted free agency is now this -- the Bills have five days to match the Vikings' offer. MORE: Why the Kansas City Chiefs traded for Justin Fields With unrestricted free agents, they're totally gone.