JJ McCarthy camp hoping for Trade out of Minnesota (article)

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All I am saying is I don't think other owners are lining up to take McCarthy.  He is a winner but he was in a massively run heavy offense which gave him a lot of 1 on 1 coverage in college.  Against college level DB's.  

And throw in the injury history and I just don't see anyone taking a flyer on him unless its for near nothing.   

We keep him as our #2 in case Murray gets hurt or stinks it up.  Then he is going to have 1 last shot to prove his worth or C-ya.

NFL teams aren’t grading JJM on his first 6 games as if that was what his worth is.  They’re grading him on what they think he could become.  A draft pick doesn’t completely lose his value after his first 6-10 games.

I think if the Vikings put JJM on the trade block today, he would be gone as quickly as it’d take to sort through all the offers and negotiate teams against each other, and we’d probably get offers from at least 10 different teams.  We’d get no less than a mid 3rd and it’d very likely be higher.

I think you could get a 2nd out of Pittsburg any day of the week, which would still be dumb of us to accept that offer.

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NFL teams aren’t grading JJM on his first 6 games as if that was what his worth is.  They’re grading him on what they think he could become.  A draft pick doesn’t completely lose his value after his first 6-10 games.

I think if the Vikings put JJM on the trade block today, he would be gone as quickly as it’d take to sort through all the offers and negotiate teams against each other, and we’d probably get offers from at least 10 different teams.  We’d get no less than a mid 3rd and it’d very likely be higher.

I think you could get a 2nd out of Pittsburg any day of the week, which would still be dumb of us to accept that offer.

Agree. I don't think many understand that you can tear up the trade comp book when it comes to QBs. Even megabust Josh Rosen drew a 2nd and a 5th. Sam Darnold was considered a bust when he was traded to Carolina for a 2nd, 4th and 6th. Maybe the most surprising one was Brett Favre. He was drafted in the 2nd round by the Falcons in '91, sat on the bench the whole season, then was traded to the Packers for a 1992 1st round pick. 

McCarthy's a former top 10 pick, just 23 years old and still on his rookie contract. And he isn't really considered a bust...yet, consider how much injuries played a part in his slow development. I don't think the Vikings are going to trade him—at least not this year—but he would draw a LOT of interest around the NFL. The Vikings aren't the only team who scouted him.