J.J. McCarthy is a key to the Minnesota Vikings’ offseason plans, so the additional hurdle he is navigating is especially noteworthy.

Resurfacing after months of recovery, Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy looks different. Captured on the Vikings sidelines during their final regular season game, the former 10th overall pick was visibly thinner and,

That was before quarterback guru Kevin O'Connell arrived in Minnesota. He's made the Vikings a dream destination for any quarterback looking for a change of scenery, including Fields, who named Minnesota one of his four preferred destinations in a trade last year.

Minnesota Vikings QB J.J. McCarthy is a relative unknown and suffered a serious knee injury, which has led to questions around the NFL.

For the rest of them, they are now onto draft season. The Minnesota Vikings have been there for two weeks and we've learned quite a bit about the draft class. The biggest thing we've learned so far? We don't know that much about who will be selected by the Vikings at 24th overall.

Quarterback J.J. McCarthy was at the helm of the Michigan Wolverines a year ago at this time when his team pushed around the Washington Huskies, 34-13, to win t

The Minnesota Vikings made a big play for the future when they traded up for both J.J. McCarthy and Dallas Turner in the 2024 NFL Draft. They took McCarthy to be the future at the quarterback

Whether the J.J. McCarthy era in Minnesota will begin in Week 1 of the 2025 season remains to be seen. But as general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah said, “If that’s the course of action we decide,

“I’m very excited about where J.J. is at,” Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell said in an end-of-season press conference. “He’s returned to on-field training. He’s returned to being right where we hoped he’d be at this point to have the type of offseason to be able to answer that question (about whether or not he can start beginning in 2025).”

If the Minnesota Vikings decide to roll with J.J. McCarthy as their starter for the 2025 NFL season, this veteran wide receiver would be the perfect offseason target for coach Kevin O'Connell's offense.

For a fun little thought exercise, let's go through every single Vikings unrestricted free agent and hand out a percentage of likelihood that they'll be back for another season in purple in 2025. These are going to be totally speculative estimations — and the beauty of probability is that I won't technically be wrong if I give a player a 10 percent chance to return and it ends up happening.

There are plenty of really good reasons why the Vikings should do the opposite of what the insider thinks will happen.