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The Minnesota Vikings have a new backup quarterback.

This morning, the Vikings have traded Sam Howell to the Philadelphia Eagles, along with a 2027 6th to receive back

a fifth round pick in 2026 and a seventh round pick in 2027. So we will break it all down

and what it means for the wide receiver position all throughout training camp and even going back to

mini camp. There was a lot of skepticism around how Sam Howell looked as a fit for Kevin

O'Connell's offense. And as the summer went along, we thought maybe it'll click in. Maybe he'll

have a moment. Maybe it'll be okay. Maybe he will have a moment. Maybe it'll be okay.

Maybe he will have the momentum from that first preseason game that he'll pick up on and he'll go forward.

And it'll be just fine like Case Keenham was once upon a time in 2017 when he had a rough start to camp.

And it just did not go that way.

I think that the first preseason game where Sam Howell performed all right, that one maybe took the heat off for a little bit, but even some of

the comments from Kevin O'Connell had kind of indicated that still he was not happy with what he

looked like in practice, which does mean more to the evaluation

than the preseason games. But then the second preseason game, one for five, a terrible

interception. And when you add it all together, you just can't go out and play that way

in a preseason game and look like you can't handle the offense at all. So the Vikings, I think from that

moment on, and I didn't think that Howell had a great joint practices either, but really that

second preseason game, if there was a play that broke the Sam Howells back in Minnesota, it was

that interception where I think he was trying to throw the ball away, but it just

looked like he panicked and heaved it up in the air. And I don't think Kevin O'Connell wants a backup

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