Yeah there's no chance he gets traded. Either he sits out and re-enters the draft next year, or he signs.
The only thing more annoying than a TRULY greedy player, are the people who talk so much **** about players being greedy without knowing exactly what the situation is. Bryant McKinnie is not a wanted man in Minnesota. He knows it, and the Vikes are treating him like they don't want him...because they DIDN'T. They WANTED Ryan Sims, badly. But due to a draft day fiasco where they could have in fact HAD Ryan Sims had their man just spoken the words instead of waiting for the Cowboys and Chiefs to get their **** together, they ended up with Bryant McKinnie.
And since then they have not offered McKinnie anything close to fair market value for his contract. I'm sorry but you can not blame a player for wanting to play for market value because otherwise the team is cheating him. Please see Alex Marvez' article about how Zach Thomas agrees with Randy Moss and Edgerrin James. There's a very specific slotting process involved with signing draft picks according to where they were drafted. Old Meathead Mike Tice is the kind of coach who only likes "his" players and doesn't like anyone else and will act accordingly. If you don't believe me, keep up a little bit on what has been going on with the Vikes in recent history. Bryant McKinnie is not a Mike Tice player. Ryan Sims was. So instead of finding out what the picks before and after Bryant McKinnie signed for, and offering Bryant a FAIR MARKET CONTRACT based on those numbers, the Vikings have offered McKinnie a FULL MILLION DOLLARS below what the pick AFTER McKinnie signed for.
So if I'm Bryant McKinnie, and the draft pick before me gets like $9.5 million signing bonus, and the draft pick below me gets an $9 million signing bonus...why the FVCK would I sign a contract with an $8 million signing bonus? It doesn't make sense. The Vikes are the culprits here NOT McKinnie. There's billions of bucks being had in football and each and every player deserves their share of those billions because THEY are the reason we watch. The XFL proved that.
Ever since the Korey Stringer thing, and then Mike Tice's subsequent takeover of the organization, I have lost so much respect for the Vikings organization that its ridiculous and I'm not even surprised that they are failing to offer their first round pick something even CLOSE to fair market value for his services....to the point where they are going to lose their draft pick Bryant McKinnie. Bryant deserves a better team than that.
Incidentally the Dolphins also low-balled their draft pick Seth McKinney by offering him far below market price for his signing bonus. BUT, they made up for it by including incentives that are so ridiculously easy to achieve that his first year salary is guaranteed to make up the difference between what his signing bonus SHOULD have been, and what his signing bonus actually was. The Dolphins did it right. They only offered the low bonus because they had an unusually small rookie allocation anyway...and as the first class organization that they are they made up for it and that is why Seth McKinney is here. The Vikes have made no such attempts to offer a fair contract, and have even attempted to collude with the Chiefs so that they could grab McKinnie by the nut sack even more.
I for one hope McKinnie holds out, re-enters the draft next year, gets selected by a team that WANTS him, and gets what he's worth. He's going to be one heck of a great left tackle in this league and I could only wish he were a dolphin. Subsequently I hope the loss of a good LT leaves the Vikings wallowing in he|| for years to come while Mike Tice is fired after his first year and replaced with someone who shakes up the whole organization and brings respectability back to it.