The Minnesota Vikings are starting the process of reducing their roster to 53 players, and with things still unsettled on their quarterback depth chart, they’ve brought in an interesting name to potentially add to it.
According to Lindsay Thiry of ESPN, the Vikings brought quarterback Carson Wentz in for a workout on Saturday.
Wentz’s story is pretty well-documented. He was the #2 overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft out of North Dakota State by the Philadelphia Eagles, and after an up-and-down rookie season, was playing lights out football in his second season until he tore his ACL late in the season. He went on injured reserve and watched Nick Foles lead the Eagles to a Super Bowl victory a couple of months later.
Wentz played decently enough, at least statistically, in 2018 and 2019, but bottomed out in 2020 when he led the NFC in interceptions and total turnovers. The Eagles traded him to the Indianapolis Colts before the 2021 season, and he started all 17 games, throwing for over 3,500 yards and 27 touchdowns with just seven interceptions. The Colts then traded him to Washington ahead of the 2022 season, and he started only seven games because of an injury that landed him on injured reserve. He came back later in the season but did not regain his starting spot, and was released by Washington after the season.
He then spent the next couple of seasons as a backup, spending the 2023 season as the backup to Matthew Stafford in Los Angeles and 2024 as Patrick Mahomes’ understudy in Kansas City. He has appeared in just five games over the past two seasons.
The Vikings certainly appear to have an opening on their quarterback depth chart, but perhaps not the one that everyone expected might come when the preseason started. J.J. McCarthy will begin this season as the starter, and undrafted rookie Max Brosmer has certainly outperformed the two other veterans on the depth chart, Sam Howell and Brett Rypien. If the Vikings are going to bring Wentz aboard, it’s likely going to be at Howell’s expense. Would be be QB2 or QB3? That remains to be seen, but it absolutely wouldn’t be surprising to see Brosmer as McCarthy’s primary backup after his preseason performance.
Who knows? Perhaps Wentz, if called upon, can be the latest graduate of the Kevin O’Connell School for Quarterbacks Who Can’t Throw Good and Want to Learn to Do Other Stuff Good, Too. After all, not a lot of folks thought a whole lot of Sam Darnold when the Vikings brought him in last season, and look what that turned into last season.
What do you think of the idea of the Vikings potentially bringing in a former #2 overall pick to be the team’s backup quarterback?
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