Source: Vikings pass on WR Patterson’s option

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MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Vikings said after the 2015 season that Cordarrelle Patterson was heading toward a telltale year. The wide receiver admitted as much. Now the Vikings have put their money — or perhaps more accurately, won’t put it — where their mouth is.

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The team informed the wide receiver that it will not pick up his fifth-year option, according to a league source.

The Vikings had informed the agents for cornerback Xavier Rhodes and defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd earlier Monday that they would exercise the options for both players, making Patterson the only one of the Vikings’ three 2013 first-round picks not to …

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