{"id":464748,"date":"2026-02-07T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464748\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:36:08","slug":"where-does-j-j-mccarthy-rank-among-others-in-the-2024-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464748\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does J.J. McCarthy rank among others in the 2024 NFL Draft?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Minnesota Vikings<\/a> believed they were getting their quarterback of the future when they selected J.J. McCarthy with the 10th overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. Through two seasons, McCarthy hasn’t paid off that investment.<\/p>\n

A torn meniscus ended his rookie season before it started. In 2025, inconsistent play was interrupted by more injuries, resulting in missing seven more games.<\/p>\n

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So far, McCarthy has only started 10 of 34 possible games. While he likely wouldn’t have started in place of Sam Darnold in 2024, McCarthy’s injury kept him off the practice field, which would have resulted in valuable reps.<\/p>\n

Alex Kay of Bleacher Report ranked the six quarterbacks<\/a> taken in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft. He ranks McCarthy fifth, which may be fitting, given that he was originally the fifth quarterback taken.<\/p>\n

McCarthy displayed promise during his two seasons as Michigan’s starter, but he was more of a game manager in Jim Harbaugh’s run-heavy system. Although he has shown the talent to be a more complete quarterback in the NFL, McCarthy has not consistently realized his potential.<\/p>\n

Two picks after the Vikings took McCarthy, the Broncos<\/a> selected Bo Nix. Denver’s quarterback was ranked second on the list, behind New England’s Drake Maye. The book hasn’t been written on McCarthy’s career, but he faces an interesting offseason. The Vikings could opt to swing a big trade for a quarterback, putting McCarthy’s future in Minnesota in jeopardy.<\/p>\n

It may not be how anyone envisioned his career to go two years ago. But so far, McCarthy hasn’t shown the Vikings enough to put their trust in him.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Vikings Wire: Where does J.J. McCarthy rank among others in his draft class?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Vikings believed they were getting their quarterback of the future when they selected J.J. McCarthy with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[238042,64,63,17469,5366,3897,5374,1282,28784,1239,5384,593,61251,1269,85],"class_list":["post-464748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-2024-nfl-draft","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bo-nix","tag-broncos","tag-denver","tag-drake-maye","tag-j-j-mccarthy","tag-jim-harbaugh","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-new-england","tag-nfl","tag-quarterback","tag-sam-darnold","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}