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Sam Howell<\/a> is on the move once again, as the Minnesota Vikings<\/a> and Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> agreed to a trade that sends the fourth-year quarterback to Philly along with a sixth round pick, with the Eagles sending a fifth and seventh rounder in return.\u00a0<\/p>\n The move opened up a quarterback spot on the Vikings roster, which they filled quickly by reportedly signing Carson Wentz<\/a> to serve as a backup to J.J. McCarthy<\/a> and provide a veteran presence in the QB room. Wentz worked out for the Vikings on Monday and signed a day later after they cleared a spot by trading Howell.\u00a0<\/p>\n The former No. 2 overall pick of the Eagles, Wentz spent seven seasons as a starter in the NFL<\/a> before shifting into a backup role. Wentz spent the 2024 season behind Patrick Mahomes<\/a> in Kansas City after a year as Matthew Stafford’s<\/a> backup in Los Angeles, but will now shift into more of a mentor role in Minnesota for the second-year QB out of Michigan, who missed all of his rookie season with an injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n Howell, meanwhile, moves back to the NFC East after starting his career in Washington before spending a season in Seattle and this preseason in Minnesota. He joins\u00a0Tanner McKee<\/a> in the Philly quarterback room as the backups to Jalen Hurts<\/a>, as Philadelphia saw last year’s backup, Kenny Pickett<\/a>, sign with the Browns<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Sam Howell is on the move once again, as the Minnesota Vikings and Philadelphia Eagles agreed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1763,7,259,6,109,2336],"class_list":{"0":"post-314114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-carson-wentz","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-minnesota-vikings","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","13":"tag-sam-howell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}