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If Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold leaves the franchise in free company — it’s trying increasingly more just like the possible consequence — they’ll want a QB2 in 2025 behind J.J. McCarthy, the odds-on favourite to win the QB1 job.
Daniel Jones’ Worth Tag Takes Form
And virtually naturally, that QB2 could possibly be Daniel Jones, a cast-off from the New York Giants’ roster. Jones grew to become a Viking down the stretch of the 2024 common season, hitting the apply squad when he divorced the Giants for good.
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And due to Spotrac, Jones’ price ticket as a free agent has taken form. His subsequent workforce will possible pay him $13.3 million, maybe on a one-year “prove it” or “bridge quarterback” deal. It’s not not like Darnold in 2024, who signed with the Vikings for $10 million.
Jones ranked twenty sixth of 36 qualifying quarterbacks per EPA+CPOE this season, so he’ll hope for a QB1 shot someplace in 2025 to spice up that standing nearer to the center of the NFL.
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Final week, Jones was linked to the Las Vegas Raiders’ free-agent plans, probably on deck to interchange Gardner Minshew, additionally a free agent. Former NFLer Mark Sanchez, who is aware of a factor or two in regards to the quarterback place, named the Raiders a touchdown spot for Daniel Jones.
“Do not sleep on Daniel Jones. Wherever that guy goes, if he lands in the right spot, that would be one of the best places for him, with that head coach. He has all the ability in the world. That kid would be dialed there. I love that possibility,” Sanchez mentioned final week on The Herd about Jones ending up with the Raiders.
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Las Vegas owns the draft’s sixth general decide in April, which is a bit like quarterback purgatory throughout this cycle. Miami’s Cam Ward and Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders will possible be off the board by decide No. 6, and the Raiders, for instance, “reaching” for Jalen Milroe, Jaxson Dart, or Quinn Ewers is likely to be foolish.
In any other case, most Vikings followers consider Jones would make sense as a QB2 in Minnesota, because the aforementioned McCarthy is recovering from a meniscus tear that sidelined him for all of 2024.
Minnesota additionally has Nick Mullens scheduled to hit free company, and if Jones left Minnesota, together with Darnold to a brand new workforce, Mullens may return for QB2 duties.
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The Vikings re-signed quarterback Brett Rypien in the beginning of the offseason, a passer who may vie for the QB3 spot.
NFL free company is 25 days away.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his every day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options company, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple workforce, with 4-7 episodes per week. His Vikings 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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