{"id":41736,"date":"2025-03-16T12:41:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T12:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=41736"},"modified":"2025-03-16T12:41:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T12:41:58","slug":"49ers-trade-star-running-back-jordan-mason-to-the-minnesota-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=41736","title":{"rendered":"49ers trade star running back Jordan Mason to the Minnesota Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js-article-text\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong><b>Click here to follow all the latest NFL news from DailyMail.com<\/b><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By BEN NAGLE<\/p>\n<p>Published:<time datetime=\"2025-03-16T11:43:33+0000\"> 07:43 EDT, 16 March 2025 <\/time> | Updated: <time datetime=\"2025-03-16T12:04:31+0000\"> 08:04 EDT, 16 March 2025 <\/time><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The San Francisco 49ers have traded star running back Jordan Mason to the Minnesota Vikings in the latest shock offseason NFL move.<\/p>\n<p>Mason was the Niners&#8217; lead back in 2024 due to Christian McCaffrey&#8217;s Achilles injury, but he has now been let go to bolster a very active Vikings roster.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last week, the Vikings either re-signed or acquired 12 different players in an attempt to improve a team that finished 14-3 in the regular season but bombed out of the playoffs at the first hurdle.<\/p>\n<p>Mason has agreed to a two-year, $7million fully guaranteed contract in Minnesota, which could rise to $12m if he meets various incentives.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal, the 49ers will receive a 2026 sixth-round pick, and the two teams have also swapped picks 160 and 187 in this year&#8217;s NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Mason will pair with the experienced Aaron Jones in the Vikings running back room, who last week agreed to return on a two-year, $20m deal.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jordan Mason has been traded from the San Francisco 49ers to the Minnesota Vikings<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Mason enjoyed a breakout year for the Niners in 2024, in the absence of Christian McCaffrey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>ESPN report that Minnesota had prioritized finding Jones some backfield partners to share the load, after he recorded a career-high number of carries (255) in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Mason was one of the NFL&#8217;s lead rushers last season, racking up a career-high 789 yards on 153 attempts with three touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>He ended the season on injured reserve with a high ankle sprain, which forced him to miss the final five games of the Vikings&#8217; campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Mason&#8217;s exit from San Francisco is likely to leave the team needing to dig back into the running back market themselves.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, McCaffrey is backed up by Isaac Guerendo and Patrick Taylor Jr, with only the latter not in the process of recovering from a knee injury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last week, the Vikings either re-signed or acquired 12 different players in an attempt to improve a team that finished 14-3 in the regular season but bombed out of the playoffs immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":41738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[176,1241,9,12,182],"class_list":["post-41736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-dailymail","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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