Could J.J. McCarthy be traded if Kyler Murray wins the job?
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The situation surrounding J.J. McCarthy has become very rocky as the team has now signed Kyler Murray to compete with him. The former number one overall pick has shown much more promise in his time in the NFL than McCarthy has, so much so that he even earned a second contract with his former team, the Arizona Cardinals.
Now, in a situation that Murray is used to, is the player he was brought in to compete against the odd man out? Back in 2019, he was drafted first overall, a year after the Cardinals had drafted Josh Rosen, who was drafted tenth overall by the team. As a result, the team traded away Rosen and went all in on Murray.
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So with that thought in mind, if Murray wins the starting job, could the Vikings trade away McCarthy? The Athletic's Alec Lewis discussed the idea recently.
Lewis writes, "McCarthy is perceived as a sizable project. Unlike Richardson, who had also missed games due to injury and struggled with accuracy, McCarthy does not have a 6-foot-4, 244-pound frame. However, the two make sense to compare. They were both young when they entered the NFL, and neither started a bunch of games in college. Both have high-end traits. And both became starters for teams with regimes that expected to win."
He still has some value in the NFL; he can be an NFL quarterback. Even players designated as franchise quarterbacks stick around the league, a prime example being Mitchell Trubisky. But players are assets, trading him away won't get much of a return, but it would get a pick back at the very least and be able to start over.
Both things the team may be looking to do.
This article originally appeared on Vikings Wire: It would make sense to trade J.J. McCarthy if he loses the job