The Carson Wentz Revenge Game™ is officially on for U.S. Bank Stadium on Sunday.
During his Friday afternoon press conference, Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell announced that Carson Wentz would make his fourth consecutive start for the purple when they face the team that drafted him, the Philadelphia Eagles, on Sunday afternoon.
O’Connell also said that rookie Max Brosmer will serve as the backup to Wentz, while J.J. McCarthy will be the #3 (emergency) quarterback on Sunday.
Wentz took over for McCarthy after the latter suffered a high ankle sprain in the team’s Week 2 loss to the Atlanta Falcons in Minneapolis. In the three games that Wentz has started, the Vikings have posted a 2-1 mark, with Wentz completing 69% of his passes and averaging 253 yards a game while throwing five touchdown passes and two interceptions.
I can understand wanting to be cautious with McCarthy and making sure his ankle is at 100% when he comes back. However, this will be the fourth game that McCarthy will, barring injury, be on the sideline for, and it’s hard to fathom the Vikings turning around and starting him against the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 8 on short rest. The team chose not to put him on injured reserve after the injury happened, which would have forced him to miss four games in any case.
Warren will be along with the full final injury report for Sunday’s game in a little while here, but for now the news is that the quarterback position will now be manned by Wentz, who will face the Eagles for the second time in his career. Hopefully, for the Vikings, it goes better than the first time he faced off with Philadelphia. . .he did so as the quarterback in Washington in 2022, a game that his team lost by a final score of 24-8.
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