{"id":157043,"date":"2025-08-19T00:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T00:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/157043\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T00:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T00:24:10","slug":"kevin-oconnell-vikings-no-2-qb-competition-is-still-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/157043\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin O’Connell: Vikings’ No. 2 QB competition is “still open”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Vikings have no questions regarding the identity of their starting quarterback. Beyond J.J. McCarthy, however, it\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess to how the quarterbacks will fall on the depth chart.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s been presumed that veteran Sam Howell, a 17-game starter in Washington two years ago, will be the primary backup, coach Kevin O\u2019Connell on Monday said the competition remains unresolved.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a reason why we\u2019re playing all three of them,\u201d O\u2019Connell told reporters regarding Howell, Brett Rypien, and Max Brosmer, via Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com. \u201cAs far as what that means in the overall competition, I think I would just say that it\u2019s still open<\/a> and we\u2019re trying to figure out what that room is going to look like for the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team\u2019s unofficial depth chart shows Howell at No. 2, Rypien at No. 3, and Brosmer at No. 4.<\/p>\n

The Vikings have started five different quarterbacks during O\u2019Connell\u2019s three seasons in Minnesota: Kirk Cousins, Jaren Hall, Joshua Dobbs, Nick Mullins, and Sam Darnold. McCarthy will be the sixth.<\/p>\n

The Vikings acquired Howell from the Seahawks for a flip-flop of 2025 fifth-round draft picks.<\/p>\n

In theory, the Vikings could opt to go with none of the above, and to look for someone not currently on the team. In eight days, rosters will cut to 53, and multiple quarterbacks will become available.<\/p>\n

If McCarthy remains healthy, it won\u2019t be an issue. If he misses time, the Vikings will need to have someone who can be trusted with the assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vikings have no questions regarding the identity of their starting quarterback. Beyond J.J. McCarthy, however, it\u2019s anyone\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-157043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115052587615183400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}