In a significant departure from how they handled things last season, it appears that the Minnesota Vikings will have their quarterback room settled well in advance of the 2026 season.
According to Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network, the Vikings
are re-signing quarterback Carson Wentz, presumably to fill out their quarterback room alongside J.J. McCarthy and Kyler Murray.
The Vikings signed Wentz just before the start of the 2025 season and wound up putting him into the starting lineup in Week 3 following McCarthy suffering a high ankle sprain in Week 2. Wentz then started the next five games for the Vikings, leading the team to a 2-3 record in those games. He ended up suffering a season-ending shoulder injury in the team’s loss to the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 8, a game in which he took as much of a beating as any Vikings’ quarterback has taken in recent memory.
In his five starts in 2025, Wentz completed 65% of his passes for 1,216 yards and threw six touchdown passes to five interceptions.
As Pelissero mentions, with Wentz back in the fold, the Vikings quarterback room now has three players who were top ten overall draft picks. Murray was the #1 overall pick in 2019, Wentz was the #2 overall selection in 2016, and the Vikings took McCarthy at #10 overall in 2024.
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