Vikings swing for the fences with Kyler Murray
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This isn't supposed to happen. Teams aren't supposed to be able to sign a 28-year-old quarterback who was a first overall pick and previously been a legitimate part of an MVP discussion for the league minimum. Yet that's exactly where we've arrived with Kyler Murray and the Minnesota Vikings. Alec Lewis, The Athletic's Vikings beat reporter, joins Robert Mays to break down the move, what Kyler brings to the Vikings, the future of J.J. McCarthy, and more on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.5 | Kyra Murray is officially a Minnesota Viking. |
| 0:08.9 | We knew this was going to happen. |
| 0:10.5 | And part of me was like, can we just wait until Monday to talk about it? |
| 0:13.6 | But it's a huge move. |
| 0:15.3 | Like, Kyleor Murray is still a talented quarterback. |
| 0:17.5 | The Vikings are an intriguing destination. |
| 0:19.7 | You're landing in a spot with Justin |
| 0:21.2 | Jefferson, Kevin O'Connell, an offensive line that should be better this year than it was last |
| 0:25.8 | year when it was super banged up. The Vikings are an intriguing team with Kyler at the helm. And so I |
| 0:31.2 | really didn't want to sit on this for a couple of days. There was some urgency in wanting to have this |
| 0:34.6 | discussion. And so joining me on short notice, it is our friend, |
| 0:38.4 | our Vikings writer at the athletic, Alec Lewis, to help me dig through all things, Kyler Murray and |
| 0:44.3 | Minnesota, how we arrived at this point, what it means for JJ McCarthy, the best case scenario for how |
| 0:49.1 | this could work out, and much, much more. So let's get to that conversation with Alec right now. |
| 0:59.0 | Thank you. and much, much more. So let's get to that conversation with Alec right now. We all knew it was probably going to happen. But now that it actually has happened, we wanted to have our Vikings writer, Alec Lewis, on to chat a little bit about the Kyler Murray era in Minnesota. |
| 1:11.6 | Alec, now that we've actually seen this go down, let's talk about how we arrived at this |
| 1:16.1 | point if you're the Vikings. |
| 1:17.3 | Why among all of the other options on the board, and there were other options on the board, |
| 1:21.3 | do you think the Vikings landed with Kyler Murray as, let's call it the competition |
| 1:26.2 | for JJ McCarthy this season? We can dig into that as we go. |
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