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Last week when reports broke that the Vikings were not expected to pursue veteran quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the immediate response around the football world was that the reports directly pasted second-year J.J. McCarthy as the Vikings’ QB1.
However, per McCarthy himself, that actually hasn’t been the case as of yet.
During a recent interview with Kay Adams on her Up & Adams Show Tuesday morning, McCarthy admitted that the Vikings haven’t actually told him to his face that he’s now the starting quarterback.