{"id":233386,"date":"2025-09-17T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/233386\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T08:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:30:11","slug":"vikings-to-sign-qb-desmond-ridder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/233386\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings To Sign QB Desmond Ridder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Desmond Ridder<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s well-traveled NFL journey will include a trip up north. The Vikings are signing the former Falcons third-round pick, NFL.com\u2019s Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Raiders did not tender Ridder as a restricted free agent<\/a> this offseason, and the Bengals did not retain him following roster cuts<\/a> last month. But Ridder will head to Minnesota following J.J. McCarthy<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s ankle injury. This is an active-roster deal, as Ridder will join UDFA rookie Max Brosmer<\/a><\/strong> in backing up Carson Wentz<\/a><\/strong> in Week 3. Ridder worked out for the Vikings today, KPRC2\u2019s Aaron Wilson tweets<\/a>, joining Dorian Thompson-Robinson<\/a><\/strong> in doing so.<\/p>\n

Since March 2024, Ridder has now been with five teams. The Falcons traded him to the Cardinals straight-up for<\/a> wide receiver Rondale Moore<\/a><\/strong>. Arizona, however, waived the primary 2023 Atlanta starter that August. Ridder joined the Raiders off the Cards\u2019 practice squad in late October and made a start for the team. As Las Vegas overhauled its front office and coaching staff yet again, Ridder was not deemed a priority. He then signed with the Bengals, only to not make their 53-man roster out of training camp.<\/p>\n

Ridder\u2019s 18 NFL starts notwithstanding, this makes for an odd Vikings QB depth chart. With McCarthy on the mend, Minnesota\u2019s healthy QB options will include a rookie UDFA and two players acquired recently. The Vikes signed Wentz on August 24<\/a>, doing so upon trading Sam Howell<\/a><\/strong> to the Eagles. Wentz will be expected to start against the Bengals this week. With McCarthy far from certain to be ready for Week 4<\/a>, it is not out of the questions Minnesota holds him out through its Week 6 bye. The Vikings face the Steelers and Browns in Weeks 4 and 5.<\/p>\n

Ridder has certainly not impressed as a starting option. The Falcons reversed course on their Ridder call in-season, benching him at points for Taylor Heinicke<\/a><\/strong>. This came after the team refrained from a QB search \u2014 including what would have been a fruitless push for the then-franchise-tagged Lamar Jackson<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 and an aim to build around Ridder\u2019s rookie deal. In 2024, Atlanta gave Kirk Cousins<\/a><\/strong> a lucrative deal and then drafted Michael Penix Jr.<\/a><\/strong> in Round 1. In between, the Ridder-for-Moore swap occurred.<\/p>\n

This addition would give the Vikings some cover in the event Wentz is injured or struggles mightily. After all, the one-time MVP candidate-turned-journeyman has been with the Vikings for less than a month. The team retained Brosmer at last month\u2019s roster-setting deadline<\/a>, rather than risk putting him on waivers en route to the practice squad, but it might be a tall order for the rookie UDFA (out of Minnesota) to step in as a starter. With Ridder just joining the team, he would certainly be limited if asked to leapfrog Brosmer in relief of Wentz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Desmond Ridder\u2018s well-traveled NFL journey will include a trip up north. The Vikings are signing the former Falcons…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":233387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[125601,21441,8812,62,1650,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-233386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-desmond-ridder","9":"tag-dorian-thompson-robinson","10":"tag-minnesota-vikings","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-transactions","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233386","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=233386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}