Former Vikings Most Likely to Return to Team in 2021 The Options are Plentiful. 1 3 minutes read Free-agent week begins tomorrow with “legal tampering,” and the Minnesota Vikings have about $10 million to invest in players. That figure is sliding in nature and could spike with any Vikings transaction involving another release or a contractual restructure of an existing player. So far, Stephen Weatherly came home this offseason. He spent 2020 with the Carolina Panthers, a place where his career did not take off as he forecasted at this time last year. Weatherly did not make too much noise in Carolina and was then hurt for the last half of the season. With the Vikings, he will compete for snaps at right defensive end, battling players like Ifeadi Odenigbo, D.J. Wonnum, and Jalyn Holmes.