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practice squad rather than join the Eagles’ 53-player roster after Minnesota increased his pay Mike Remmers Jersey , Chris Tomasson of the reports.The Vikings raised Odenigbo’s salary to $28,235 per week, which is the same as he would have made on a minimum deal with the Eagles. The practice squad minimum is $7,600 a week.“When you’re on the practice squad, you don’t really know if you’re staying with a team, but [the Vikings] told me they look at me as part of the future, so it was cool,’’ Odenigbo said. “They told me Riley Reiff Jersey , ‘We have plans for you and trust the process and we’ll match their offer.’ So that worked out well.’’ Odenigbo, a seventh-round pick of the Vikings in 2017, spent all of last season on the Vikings’ practice squad. He had short stints on the 53-player rosters of the Browns and Cardinals this season before rejoining the Vikings’ practice squad Oct. 31.Besides the Eagles being “pretty heavily interested” in signing Odenigbo, the Colts also have had interest.Odenigbo plans to sign a futures contract with the Vikings in the offseason.Big Blue View tells us more about Brett Jones In case you missed the earlier news, the Minnesota Vikings have acquired offensive lineman Brett Jones from the New York Football Giants in exchange for a seventh-round pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. We knew that the Vikings were likely going to be looking for offensive line help, and it appears that the deal for Jones is a pretty good one for the purple.But, since I don’t know a whole lot about Jones, I reached out to our friend Ed Valentine from Big Blue View Latavius Murray Jersey , SB Nation’s home for New York Giants football. He gave me a little bit of information about Jones, and here’s what he had to say.Well. . .the rule of thumb is that if fans of the other team don’t think it’s a good trade for them, then it must be a good trade for us, right?As mentioned in the previous post about Jones, he did start 13 games for the Giants last season, with 12 of those starts coming at center (and the other coming at left guard). He got the same second-round tender placed on him this offseason as Nick Easton did, and could very well be playing for a big deal somewhere next season.I’m still reading up on what Jones has to offer, but someone that’s watched him a heck of a lot more than I have seems to think that the Vikings got a pretty good player out of the deal George Iloka Jersey , and gave up just a seventh-round pick next year, when the Vikings should have several extra picks in their back pocket thanks to compensatory selections.On the surface, this appears to be a solid move by Rick Spielman. We’ll see where Jones fits in once he finally gets to Minnesota, but I don’t see anything to be disappointed with at this point.