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Questions Answered: Sam Darnold’s Return, an Andrew Van Ginkel Elevate, Vikings’ Trades
Additionally, please notice: These are opinion-based responses. Some solutions will likely be incorrect sometimes. However we’ll attempt to preserve that to a minimal.
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Q: I noticed that Tom Pelissero stated Sam Darnold might be again with the Vikings. Do you agree?
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Reply: No.
He’s not manner out of left area or something; we simply disagree.
“I would say on paper the most logical outcome of this is Sam Darnold still in Minnesota. JJ McCarthys missed his entire rookie season coming off knee surgery,” Pelissero informed Sportskeeda this week. “They believe in him. They’re not trading J.J. McCarthy. But there’s no precedent for a guy missing an entire year of reps as a rookie and coming back and playing again like it hasn’t happened.”
Pelissero added, “All I know is Sam Darnold played the best football of his career under Kevin O’Connell. The last two games notwithstanding it makes sense for Sam Darnold. All things equal to come back, it makes sense for the Vikings to bring him back. They won 14 games with him. They also have the franchise tag at their disposal if they choose to use it.”
We don’t assume the Vikings will spend $30-$45 million on Darnold after simply ending the Kirk Cousins period of budgeting. They’d be doing the identical factor: constructing a roster round an costly, non-elite quarterback.
Our cash is on J.J. McCarthy in 2025.
Q: Ought to Minnesota give Andrew Van Ginkel a pay elevate and extension even when he has one yr left on his deal?
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Reply: Sure.
He earns $10 million per season, which ought to be nearer to $18 million. With one yr left on the deal, it’s unclear if Van Ginkel will ask for an extension, however Minnesota ought to give it to him.
Gotta preserve your gamers completely happy, particularly those who deserve it. Van Ginkel is a type of.
Q: Would you commerce up the draftboard in the event you have been the Vikings for Ashton Jeanty?
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Reply: No.
Kwesi Adofo-Mensah already spent mega draft bucks on Dallas Turner final yr. They don’t have the draft capital to commerce up the board for a operating again.
Plus, this yr’s RB draft class is extraordinarily deep. If Jeanty doesn’t fall to Minnesota — he most likely received’t — Vikings followers will likely be pleased with a halfback like Kaleb Johnson, Quinshon Judkins, or TreVeyon Henderson.
As a rule of thumb, buying and selling the farm for a operating again is a no-no.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his each day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options friends, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple group, with 4-7 episodes per week. His MIN obsession dates again to 1996. Listed responsible pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, ‘The Sopranos,’ Basset Hounds, and The Doorways (the band). He follows the NBA as carefully because the NFL.
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