'We're not going to rush his development': What is the Vikings' plan for preparing J.J. McCarthy to start?

'We're not going to rush his development': What is the Vikings' plan for preparing J.J. McCarthy to start?

Apr 27, 2024 by ESPN

Key Facts

  • Jefferson, known to many around the Vikings' organization as "JJ," told McCarthy that moving forward he would go by another one of his nicknames: "Jets."
  • Later, McCarthy said, Jefferson offered a bit of advice that was especially valuable from a player who needed only two games as a backup in 2020 before bursting onto the NFL scene.
  • Like everyone else in Minnesota and around the league, Jefferson knows it's only a matter of time before McCarthy becomes the Vikings' starting quarterback.
  • How do you develop them?' And the things he talked about is the reason why I have so much faith in him to take and mold a player like [McCarthy] ... into that player we want him to be.

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