With Vikings quarterback Carson Wentz landing on injured reserve for the rest of the year with a serious shoulder injury, the Vikings have two quarterbacks on the team.<\/p>\n
They are second-year first-round quarterback J.J. McCarthy (who has played two career regular-season games) and first-year undrafted quarterback Max Brosmer (who has thrown eight passes this year in garbage time). There\u2019s no other quarterback on the 53-man roster, and there\u2019s no quarterback currently on the practice squad.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ll need to sign someone, soon. Preferably, a veteran. Ideally, someone who could play if needed in Detroit on Sunday, in the event McCarthy is injured.<\/p>\n
Of course, they could be comfortable with Brosmer serving as the primary understudy to McCarthy. They still need a third quarterback in the building.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ll presumably add one today. Possibly after a tryout competition among several candidates.<\/p>\n
The problem is that there aren\u2019t many options. They\u2019re aren\u2019t enough good quarterbacks to go around. They\u2019re aren\u2019t enough bad quarterbacks to go around. There simply aren\u2019t enough quarterbacks to go around \u2014 especially as more and more quarterbacks are injured.<\/p>\n
Whoever it is, it surely will be someone. And that someone could, in theory, end up playing at some point on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Lurking at the outer edge of the radar screen is the Kirk Cousins option. Sure, it didn\u2019t look good on Sunday, when he played in place of Michael Penix Jr. But Cousins could still become a trade-deadline emergency option if McCarthy gets injured and\/or face plants against the Lions on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Maybe McCarthy won\u2019t. Maybe he\u2019ll deliver another thrilling NFC North road win. Regardless, the Vikings have a short-term need for another quarterback, a possible longer-term need (for the balance of the season) at the position, and a beyond-2025 question as to who the quarterback will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Vikings quarterback Carson Wentz landing on injured reserve for the rest of the year with a serious…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-245857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}