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J.J. McCarthy's rookie season didn't go the way he planned after the Minnesota Vikings quarterback suffered a knee injury in the preseason, but there were still plenty of positives.
Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah said McCarthy saw "exponential" growth in 2024 and the team is "really confident" in him.
"It's a redshirt year, but mentally, the process that they had, just in our exit meetings with him, just talking about how much he learned the year compared to other years in his football life, [it was] just exponential, which you would expect for a young player in this building," Adofo-Menssah told reporters.