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Sam Darnold didn't finish the 2024-25 NFL season the way he or the Minnesota Vikings would have liked.
It doesn't sound like he did much damage—if any—to his free agent market, though.
"I talked to an executive in the AFC and an executive in the NFC yesterday, and they told me the same thing, there are too many quarterback-needy teams out there, to have his market dramatically change even after these two games," NFL insider James Palmer said on Bleacher Report. "They both told me probably the perception of his turnaround has been altered more than his market, and it's because there's more teams and there's fewer quarterbacks.