The Vikings are working out free agent quarterback Carson Wentz on Saturday, Lindsey Thiry of ESPN reports.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a sign the Vikings want a proven quarterback on the roster behind J.J. McCarthy, who has yet to take his first regular-season snap. Undrafted rookie free agent Max Brosmer was the team\u2019s best quarterback behind McCarthy in the preseason over veterans Sam Howell and Brett Rypien.<\/p>\n
Wentz played in a similar offense as Kevin O\u2019Connell\u2019s when he was with the Rams in 2023, and Vikings quarterbacks coach Josh McCown was Wentz\u2019s backup with the Eagles in 2019.<\/p>\n
Wentz, 32, served as Patrick Mahomes\u2019 backup last season.<\/p>\n
Wentz was the No. 2 overall pick in 2016 and has played with the Eagles, Colts, Commanders, Rams and Chiefs in his nine seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vikings are working out free agent quarterback Carson Wentz on Saturday, Lindsey Thiry of ESPN reports. It\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-106486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}