NFL Carson Wentz’s journey has included a lot of tangles. On Sunday, it will send him in once unlikely: He will start a game for the team he grew up with.
Injuries to JJ McCarthy have consumed Wentz to take action for the Vikings in a match that passes two copies – Cincinnati is launching a surprised Jake Browning following a significant to Joe Burrow – against each other. After starting for five different teams over the last five seasons, it is a chance that Wentz does not take lightly.
“You know, it’s one of those things, you play long enough and you forget these things, because it’s just – it’s football, you bounce around a team [on the walls at TCO Performance Center]”Wentz said on Wednesday through the official page of the team.” I was used to coming to Metrodome and waved the towel. … and so that the corridors this week will probably hit me a little different – in a really cool, kind of surreal way. “
This beginning is clearly more significant for Wentz than most because of his personal relationship with the Vikings, but it is also important for his efficiency as a backup in the NFL in the coming seasons. Former NFL MVP rival (far back in 2017) has jumped enough in recent years and only signed with the Vikings at the end of the front page, but still finds himself in a familiar place as a backup that is called for action.
Like these previous opportunities, Wentz can prove the value of its employees in both Minnesota and beyond. For now, however, one focus is to get back on the win after falling to Atlanta on Sunday night.
His new teammates rule out that plenty of optimism will come at the first start of Wentz.
“He is a guy who plays with a lot of confidence. You find it and you see that even before he was starting, just his confidence in individuals (exercises) and routes on the air and in scouts, just going and turning the football around and having fun to do it,” said Elder receiver Adam Thielen. “When you get to be an older player and former player, you just learn to go and enjoy it and not treat it so much like a job and profession, but really uses just the moments you have, and he is a guy who does it, which is great.”