told KFAN<\/a> last June, \u201cbut it always was centered around what was best not only for the present in the Minnesota Vikings organization, but the future.\u201d That future, in theory, was J.J. McCarthy. More on that in a moment. So could Rodgers and O\u2019Connell take another shot at One Last Job together?<\/p>\nWould the Vikings want a bridge quarterback?\u00a0<\/p>\n
The X factor in the Rodgers-to-Minnesota pathway is, oddly enough, Kyler Murray. Now that Murray is definitively on the market (in a few days, officially speaking), he vaults to the top of a not-particularly-inspiring collection of free agents and draft-eligible quarterbacks. So this comes down to a question of philosophy for Minnesota: a QB for the future, or a QB to prepare for the future?<\/p>\n
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Do the Vikings need this particular veteran answer at QB?<\/p>\n
You know Minnesota\u2019s tragic quarterback story. The Vikings had Sam Darnold in uniform in 2024, and opted to go with J.J. McCarthy for 2025. McCarthy threw more interceptions than touchdowns in 2025 \u2014 when he was on the field, that is \u2014 while Darnold ended up being the Last QB Standing and holding the Lombardi last month. And the less said about Max Brosmer, the better. Would it be worth a season of Rodgers to help McCarthy belatedly adjust to the NFL \u2026 or allow Minnesota to bide its time for another draft? Perhaps.<\/p>\n
Wouldn\u2019t it be nice to throw to Justin Jefferson?\u00a0<\/p>\n
With all due respect to the Pittsburgh receiving corps, including DK Metcalf and Pat Freiermuth \u2026 they ain\u2019t Justin Jefferson. Sure, Rodgers doesn\u2019t have the distance on his throws that he did earlier in his career, but with Jefferson on the other end of them, he doesn\u2019t need to. That has to be an enticing prospect for a season in purple.<\/p>\n
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Why not close the Favre career path?\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been lurking out there all along, the Stations of Brett Favre: Win a ring with Green Bay, don a different shade of green in New York, then finish up in Minnesota. Rodgers deviated from the path to go to Pittsburgh, but he\u2019s got the chance now to replicate one of the most iconic \u201cHow can we miss you if you won\u2019t go away?\u201d runs in sports history. As long as he doesn\u2019t repeat Favre\u2019s final throw in Minnesota \u2014 yep, an interception \u2014 all will be OK.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no real timeline for Rodgers to make a decision, though it\u2019s likely both the Steelers and Vikings will want to nail down their QB situation before the draft. And the Kyler Murray factor could speed up the calendar a bit. No matter which way he goes \u2014 Pittsburgh, Minnesota or a podcast studio \u2014 Rodgers will have eyes on him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The facts are right there in cold box-score type: the last pass Aaron Rodgers threw in the 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[1586,184,7578,85,2870,7,41,221,1519,2780,4827,3218,7866,1255,233,259,2529,1304,6,428,9073,520,1878,426,234],"class_list":["post-792379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-vikings","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-baltimore","tag-calen-bullock","tag-cleveland","tag-dk-metcalf","tag-football","tag-green-bay","tag-houston","tag-j-j-mccarthy","tag-justin-jefferson","tag-kyler-murray","tag-max-brosmer","tag-mike-mccarthy","tag-mike-tomlin","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-myles-garrett","tag-nfl","tag-packers","tag-pat-freiermuth","tag-pittsburgh","tag-sam-darnold","tag-steelers","tag-vikings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116173360941297213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792379","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=792379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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