Insiders Drops BOMBSHELL on Vikings QB Situation...

An NFL insider just dropped a bombshell on the Vikings quarterback situation in the wake of Kirk Cousins' return to Minnesota, leaving many questions and potential answers for what the future holds for the rest of the signal callers in the quarterback room through the rest of this season. We're going to break it down all down in this episode of Vikings Digest. First, we're trying to hit 6,200 subs before we kick off against Green Bay Packers on Sunday afternoon. So if you're part of the 88% of viewers who are not yet subscribed and you want to stay up to date on all things Vikings, make sure to hit that subscribe button and the bell icon so you don't miss any of the episodes when they drop. Vikings fans are hoping that Kirk Cousins can be the savior, not just for this offense this year, but also for the entire team that has a Super Bowl aspiration with the level of defense that they are getting. 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Which is the QB room implications, as indicated by a couple of insiders, Jeremy Fowler and Tom Pelissero. Namely, we're starting with Kyler Murray. The Vikings essentially soft benched Kyler Murray on Monday night for Carson Wentz, as Jeremy Fowler is reporting, where he went even further in depth as well on ESPN, saying that the 2026 starter, Murray, is injured and essentially soft benched. But the Vikings do a backup quarterback, which will be fascinating, which is what we're going to see over the course of the next couple of days or weeks. Either Murray or Wentz can serve as QB2. There's also the option to release one or place one on injury reserve. Murray already has an injury and Wentz appeared to hurt his throwing hand on Monday night. And Tom Pelissero was on KFAM 100.3 as well to kind of back up some of these claims where the future for Kyler Murray is very much uncertain in Minnesota, not just beyond this year. We know he's probably gone after this year. As far as the rest of this year is concerned, there is a lot of possibilities that we could see him back on the field if something were to happen to Kirk Cousins. Or as far as seeing him maybe released or on QB3, not very sure how that's all going to boil down, but Tom Pelissero offered his two cents on it when he was on KFAN 100.3. Saying that if they went to the Vikings, Kyler Murray's camp, and said, hey, he wants to be released, or we want to be released, the Vikings might do it. But, what's the point? Where is Kyler going to go at this point? I think that what makes sense is that get the hamstring right, which could be another two or three weeks, and then be out there, who knows. Touched on Kirk Cousins' durability as well, saying Kirk's been a really durable quarterback outside of the Achilles injury in his career, but if something were to happen, that Kyler's still the guy that you want to go out there and play. I think that they can carry four as long as they need to. This was also coming off the heels of the potential release of Carson Wentz, which he also touched on saying once Kyler Murray is healthy, Carson Wentz is more likely to be released than Max Brosmer is. But sticking on the Kyler Murray side of things, first of all, is I think that Minnesota is going to obviously keep him around as a QB, too, because with the injury history that Minnesota's had, not just this year, but in the past couple of years, especially when Kirk Cousins did tear his Achilles, we went through a carousel of quarterbacks that season. Went through Josh Dobbs, went through Nick Mullens, went through Jaron Hall, went through so many quarterbacks that it was very hard to try and win games. And we did that with a much weaker defense than we got right now. Right now, we got a strong defense that can keep us in games that this offense cannot get going. We are not going to go very far. So that's why they bring Kirk Cousins in. But it still gives the Vikings a chance to have the confidence that if Kirk Cousins, something happens to him or anything like that, you at least have Kyler Murray to fall back on rather than Carson Wentz or Max Brosmer. Which I think is a very good solution there and I think Kyler Murray will be a perfect QB2 for this team because he still offers a chance to win rather than zero chance to win unlike some of the other guys. As far as Carson Wentz is concerned, it is going to be very interesting to see what happens there because Tom Pelissero was talking about the state of the quarterback room as a whole. If there's a move to be made down the road once Kyler is healthy, it depends on if they want to expose Max Brosman to waivers or if they'd rather just release Carson and sign him back to the practice squad, which is probably what they would attempt to do, but they haven't really had those discussions because right now they want three healthy quarterbacks. They've only got Carson, Max, and now Kirk, so they want to have maximum health in that quarterback room, which makes sense given the injury history, but he also did say that, so I don't anticipate anything in the short term. It's possible to move down the line, yes, but it's more important for roster advancement as opposed to pissing somebody off in the room. I definitely understand that as well, and Carson Wentz, I think, for sure, is the quarterback that is on the chopping block here if they were going to move anybody off of the roster or put him on the practice squad. I think Carson Wentz, for sure, would be that guy. I think Max Rosner, even though last year, completely unplayable. Preseason, got a little bit better. In that Monday night game, I know I said it before in our post-game video and some other stuff as well, But I think that when Max Rosemar stepped in there, even though it was garbage time, even though it was against a lot of the Bills' backups by that point, he still performed at a very decent level. It was only a one drive. He was moving the ball better in that one drive than Carson Wentz did for the entirety of the game until that point. So I do think that Max Rosemar has been taking some steps in his progression. I just don't think that he is at the point to be starting, which would have been the case if they did not go out and get Kyler... Kirk Cousins, sorry, there's just so many quarterbacks rolling around this room that it's very hard to keep track of sometimes. But with bringing in Kirk Cousins, it avoided the possibility of the Vikings having to start Max Brosmer on Sunday against the Packers. Because now Kirk Cousins, it was announced today, will be starting against the Green Bay Packers. So that is a fresh sigh of relief for Vikings fans not having to worry about sending Max Brosmer out there against a Green Bay defense in Lambeau Field that is really starting to get on their up and up, really, as they are gearing up to get Michael Parsons back in the next couple of weeks. But right now, their defense is really kind of hanging tough there in the middle of the league right there, where they are continuing to get better every week. So if you send Max Brosmer in there, you're basically feeding him to the Wolves at that point like you did last year against the Seattle Seahawks. However, I do think there is a possibility, it's a very slim one, but there is a possibility here where Kirk Cousins comes in and mentors Max Brosmer to be the QB of the future for Minnesota. I might be completely out to lunch on that, I know. However, with Max Brosmer getting better and better, not by a lot, but by a little bit here and there, I think that within maybe a year or two years, we see Max Brosmer being at worst the QB2 on this team because I think he's going to know the system. He gets better every single week. It seems like, according to Kevin O'Connell, even though I know a lot of people say Kevin O'Connell gives us the coach speak and the coach salad, all that stuff. But I think that Max Brosmer is a little bit on the up and up. So if you bring in a guy like Kirk Cousins, who did a really good job, it seems like mentoring Turning to Mendoza. We'll see how that plays out with Mendoza stepping on the field this weekend and how the rest of the year goes. But if you have a guy like Kirk Cousins in there that can mentor Max Rosen, where you know Kyler Murray's not going to be the future, you know Carson Wentz is on his way out because you're probably going to release him or put him on the practice squad. If you have a guy like Kirk Cousins mentoring a guy like Max Brosmer, who has a lot to prove, who has a bit of a chip on his shoulder, who has been in the system longer than any of the other quarterbacks in that room right now, aside from Kirk Cousins having that little bit of a 10 year in Minnesota before leaving for a couple of years and coming back, you still have a chance here where you can salvage something with Max Brosmer and still maximize certain potentials within him. So I do like that possibility of Kirk Cousins maybe being a mentor for Max Brosmer to be the starter of the future for the Vikings. However, I know that is a very long stretch. Of course, Kirk Cousins will be the QB1 going forward in Minnesota. It's just a matter of what are they going to do at QB2? Are they going to release Carson Wentz and promote Max Rosemarie to QB3 and put Wentz on the practice squad, which would be insane considering he lost his job to an undrafted free agent, and then put Kyla Murray at QB2? I know a lot of Vikings fans are going to say, put Carson Wentz off of this team entirely, not even on the practice squad, and maybe put Max Rosemarie at QB2. I don't think they're going to go that far in the comments. But I know you guys don't have a lot of love for Kyla Murray as it seems right now. But with Kirk Cousins being in there, hopefully we don't even have to worry about that. They can be just Kirk Cousins riding us through this entire season to try and get us back on track where this offense needs to be. Get Justin Jefferson the ball. Get TJ Hawkinson the ball, even though he's not playing this week. Get Aaron Jones involved in getting him going in the run game along with Jordan Mason. Get Jordan Addison going. Get Jawan Jennings involved once he is healthy. Odell Beckham Jr. at this point. You guys have so many weapons on this offense. Now you have a quarterback that can finally operate the offense to get them going back to where they need to be. So it's going to be very interesting to see what the Vikings decide to do as far as the quarterback room goes. Obviously, we know Kirk Cousins' current job is safe. Kyler Murray, will he be released? I don't know. It's like Tom Palacero said, where is he going to go at this point? And as well as if something does happen to Kirk Cousins, Kyler Murray still gives you a decent enough chance to go out and get a win with the way that this defense has been playing. Carson Wentz cannot say the same for in the slightest. Max Brosmer, getting a little bit better each week. However, he still has a long way to go before he is considered startable to give this Vikings team a chance to win if his number is called. Let us know down in the comments below what you guys think the Vikings are going to do with this quarterback situation. Are they going to hold on to four quarterbacks for as long as they can? Do you think one of them is going to the practice squad? Do you think there's going to be a possible change as far as who's going to be QB2? Maybe Kyler Murray loses his job to Max Brosmer? I don't know. But it's going to be interesting to see what the Vikings decide to do for the next couple of weeks going forward. And for the rest of the year, as far as what this quarterback room is going to look like by week 18. But let us know your guys' thoughts down in the comments below as that's going to do it for this episode of Vikings Digest. Again, thank you guys so much for liking, subscribing, hitting that bell icon so you don't miss the episodes when they drop. And thank you to CourtSuit for sponsoring this video. But for now, I've been your host, Griffin. Take care.