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VikingsTerritory’s Purple Rumor Mill is a two-day chronicle every week. All of the week’s Vikings rumors are lassoed and plopped in two spots — articles on Saturday and Sunday — for evaluation. At present is the February twenty second version.
Vikings Rumors: Justin Jefferson’s Commerce Endorsement, Aaron Rodgers, Darnold & NYJ
Keep in mind — rumors are rumors. What you learn on weekends in these items is what the world is speaking about pertaining to the purple workforce, not essentially gadgets that can come to fruition.
Right here’s the primary batch of the week. All previous rumors will be learn right here.
Rumor: Justin Jefferson has urged Cleveland Browns EDGE Myles Garrett to hitch him in Minnesota.
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Jefferson overtly recruited the 2023 Defensive Participant of the 12 months, Myles Garrett, final week, suggesting the phenom EDGE rusher ought to be part of the Vikings’ roster this offseason.
“Myles, you know where to go, brother. Hey, we need one, two extra pieces, and you’ll fill in that piece. We need you,” Jefferson lately informed Garrett from afar on a USA At present podcast.
In fact, Jefferson was prompted to “say something” to Garrett, so it shouldn’t be construed that the Vikings wideout desperately pleaded for his providers or something of the type. It’s simply that any workforce touchdown Garrett this offseason would handsomely improve its roster.
Don’t count on something to come back from this one. Each participant would love Garrett on his workforce’s roster.
Rumor: Jared Allen thinks Aaron Rodgers ought to lead the Vikings in 2025.
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Corridor of Famer Jared Allen desires Aaron Rodgers to guide his outdated workforce in 2025.
“Reluctantly, yes. Only because I experienced it with Brett,” Allen informed Kay Adams this week when she requested if he’d assist Rodgers in purple. He likened Rodgers to Brett Favre whose profession has completely resembled Rodgers’.
“And it’s creepy how it’s the same path, right?” Allen stated about Rodgers’ profession arc in comparison with Favre’s. “Brett went to the Jets, everybody thought he was done, he came to us in 2009, and he had fire. He was hungry, and we went out and destroyed the North. … I’m not opposed.”
It is a neat concept, however the Vikings have J.J. McCarthy on faucet to guide the franchise. They seemingly received’t onboard a quarterback 20 years older than McCarthy.
Rumor: Sam Darnold might return dwelling this offseason … to the New York Jets.
New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold (14) runs off the sphere after the Jets defeat the Cleveland Browns, 23-16, at MetLife Stadium on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020, in East Rutherford. © Danielle Parhizkaran/NorthJersey.com by way of Imagn Content material Companies, LLC.
The Jets lately introduced that Aaron Rodgers wouldn’t return to New York in 2025, so outfitted with all new management, led by basic supervisor Darren Mougey and head coach Aaron Glenn, a brand new QB1 might be on the menu.
And that could possibly be Sam Darnold, argues BR’s Brad Gagnon. “My February prediction? The Vikes let Darnold get away in favor of McCarthy. The Steelers stick with Wilson. Cousins goes to the Raiders, Darnold goes back to the Jets in place of Aaron Rodgers, Carr becomes a bridge in Cleveland, the Titans and Giants draft Ward and Sanders, respectively, and Fields is left fighting for opportunities in a place like Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Cleveland, Las Vegas or New Orleans,” Gagnon wrote with a flurry off offseason quarterback predictions.
“Darnold, the league’s sixth-highest-rated passer from this past season, is slated to hit free agency, as is future Hall of Famer Russell Wilson. Both quarterbacks could get away from their incumbent teams due to the presence of younger, intriguing signal-callers in Minnesota (2024 first-round pick J.J. McCarthy) and Pittsburgh (2021 first-round pick Justin Fields),” Gagnon added.
It is a affordable concept, particularly if Darnold personally is keen on a reunion. Let’s face it: New York wants a quarterback, and this draft doesn’t have many 1st-Rounders for the project.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his day by day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options friends, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple workforce, 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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