{"id":92543,"date":"2025-08-24T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/92543\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:56:07","slug":"sources-vikings-add-carson-wentz-trade-sam-howell-to-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/92543\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources &#8211; Vikings add Carson Wentz, trade Sam Howell to Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"3db556c9-ed76-a7a5-4ccb-a92fc6db4334\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-vikings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> made a change to their quarterback room Sunday, reaching agreement on a contract with veteran quarterback <a data-player-guid=\"ed28fa2c-63a1-8258-b6b0-618e79d3e363\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/2573079\/carson-wentz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carson Wentz<\/a> and trading quarterback <a data-player-guid=\"5916363e-a6ac-b982-bf03-2a84374413ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4426875\/sam-howell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Howell<\/a> to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d1a9b001-1df7-fbd7-ae4c-6ca7065286ec\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-eagles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter.<\/p>\n<p>Wentz, 32, played his only season for the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f68f2343-8ceb-7a02-740d-af6338be21d2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-chiefs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> in 2024, when he served as backup to <a data-player-guid=\"37d87523-280a-9d4a-0adb-22cfc6d3619c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3139477\/patrick-mahomes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Mahomes<\/a>. Wentz played in two games as a reserve and started the final regular season game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"51042145-e3c1-0694-ae0d-f720342ff8fc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-broncos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Broncos<\/a> after the Chiefs had clinched the No. 1 overall seed for the AFC playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings acquired Howell in a trade with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"3767a23c-a17d-294f-288a-9086ad1f0680\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-seahawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> in April. The trade to the Eagles marks the third time he&#8217;s been dealt since being selected by the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"fbeaf73e-6d6c-cca4-0809-713d9d741f90\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-commanders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Commanders<\/a> in the 2022 draft.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining the Chiefs, Wentz spent his first eight NFL seasons with the Eagles, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"582d14eb-da61-e505-cc40-d972a1b60ed1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indianapolis-colts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a>, Washington Commanders and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2e1473b2-e269-fd7a-1137-c1edacb85986\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/lar\/los-angeles-rams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a>. He joined the Eagles as the No. 2 pick in the 2016 draft and played five seasons in Philadelphia as the starter before being replaced by <a data-player-guid=\"caceb80c-6350-a107-9fcf-7c7bd1b4edd8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4040715\/jalen-hurts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Hurts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He then played one season each for the Colts, Commanders and Rams before joining the Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>Wentz has thrown for 22,410 yards with 153 touchdown passes and 67 interceptions in his nine NFL seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Vikings made a change to their quarterback room Sunday, reaching agreement on a contract with veteran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-92543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92543","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=92543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}