Speculation Holds as the Vikings Land Kyler Murray

Vikings Territory Breakdown

It’s the offseason in the NFL, where speculation trickles down from the sky (or internet) and lands like so much wet, March snow, becoming frozen and as slippery a slope as any Purple prediction. It often means little and is gone in a trifling, yet sometimes that speculation holds and the Vikings get their guy.

Well, this offseason it did hold and Kyler Murray is a Viking—as nearly every podcaster with a microphone predicted. He was signed last week a one-year deal worth the league minimum (because he is getting paid $36 million by his former team, the Arizona Cardinals). 

So, what does Murray’s contract mean—one season costing $1.3 million for a 7-year veteran quarterback? Is it a one-year prove it deal? Or is it a rent-a-quarterback until JJ McCarthy gets ready? Will there be a real competition at the position? Or, as some folks online have suggested, the Vikings should trade JJ and make Murray the QBOTF?

All interesting questions that the fellas at the Vikings Territory Breakdown podcast—Joe Oberle, senior writer at vikingsterritory.com and purplePTSD.com, and Mark Craig, NFL and Vikings writer for the Star Tribune and startribune.com—will ponder for you. Because we don’t have the answers yet; it’s the season of speculation. So, tune in and check out the latest prognostications. Skol!

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Joe Oberle is a veteran sportswriter/editor/reporter and has covered the Vikings since 2008. The author of three books, he … More about Joe Oberle