The NFL Players Association is bracing for a fight with the league, and potentially the Vikings, regarding whether the contract of Teddy Bridgewater should be “tolled,” meaning he’d be forced to return to Minnesota for another year on the same $1.354 million deal if the league proves he was unable to play by mid-October this season, still recovering from a knee injury.



There’s no timeline as to when the NFLPA and the league will begin to discuss the topic, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said Thursday, though it could last into the spring and cloud the Vikings’ already murky quarterback situation.



Ambiguous language is central to the dispute, and Article 20, Section 2 of the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement is the chief issue. It reads that a player in the final year of their deal can have their contract “tolled if he is still physically unable to perform football services as of the sixth regular season...