Vikings rookie quarterback J.J. McCarthy will miss the 2024 season after surgery on his torn meniscus revealed a repair was necessary, coach Kevin O'Connell said.
I’m a Vikings fan myself, and I’ve seen the ones who have thought he was going to start right away, but nobody actually involved with the team or the sports media here in MN has ever even implied he would. The absolute earliest they figured he would see the field in the regular season would be late season depending on the circumstances. I think it’s a lot of fans hoping against hope to have some sort of expectation for this upcoming season, but I always figured this was going to be a rebuilding year at best so my own expectations are low to zero. That said, my own hope was that he’d be ready to go for next year and those hopes were probably dashed here.
I’m a Vikings fan myself, and I’ve seen the ones who have thought he was going to start right away, but nobody actually involved with the team or the sports media here in MN has ever even implied he would. The absolute earliest they figured he would see the field in the regular season would be late season depending on the circumstances. I think it’s a lot of fans hoping against hope to have some sort of expectation for this upcoming season, but I always figured this was going to be a rebuilding year at best so my own expectations are low to zero. That said, my own hope was that he’d be ready to go for next year and those hopes were probably dashed here.