{"id":27220,"date":"2026-05-11T13:47:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/27220\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:47:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:47:39","slug":"vikings-will-host-true-qb-competition-between-j-j-mccarthy-kyler-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/27220\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings will host true QB competition between J.J. McCarthy, Kyler Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"

If it was assumed that Kyler Murray<\/a> was going to be handed the Minnesota Vikings’ starting quarterback reins following two ill-fated years for J.J. McCarthy<\/a>, that won’t be the case.<\/p>\n

Minnesota will host a good, old fashioned quarterback battle between McCarthy and Murray this offseason, according to NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero.<\/p>\n

“They envision it being a true competition: Kyler Murray versus J.J. McCarthy,” Pelissero said on The Rich Eisen Show<\/a>. “And both these guys are going to go into this believing they’re gonna win this job. I don’t know frankly how friendly that quarterback room is going to be. It’s going to be a very competitive quarterback room.<\/p>\n

“From everything that I’ve understood, it is truly wide open, they’re keeping an open mind as a coaching staff.”<\/p>\n

McCarthy’s struggled in his two years in the NFL since the Vikings chose him 10th overall in an already celebrated 2024 NFL Draft. Some of his struggles have been self-inflicted (12 interceptions in 10 games), while others have been the result of injuries, as he missed all of his rookie campaign with a knee injury and dealt with multiple injuries in his sophomore season.<\/p>\n

Head coach Kevin O’Connell called for more depth and competition in the QB room room in January<\/a>, while interim general manager Rob Brzezinski said in February that the franchise would “explore every opportunity<\/a>” at QB in the offseason.<\/p>\n

That opportunity arrived with Murray’s release by the Arizona Cardinals. He quickly signed<\/a> a league minimum deal with the Vikings.<\/p>\n

A two-time Pro Bowler with seven seasons of NFL experience, Murray was likely viewed by many as the unanointed starter.<\/p>\n

Per Pelissero, the Vikings’ jury is still out on the most important starting spot on the roster, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If it was assumed that Kyler Murray was going to be handed the Minnesota Vikings’ starting quarterback reins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[489,8,2983,509,334,9,317,510,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-27220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-j-j-mccarthy","11":"tag-kyler-murray","12":"tag-minnesota-vikings","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-no-minute","15":"tag-offseason-news","16":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116556257210833552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}