With hours remaining until the 2024 NFL Draft, the New England Patriots are making their final preparations to select a future franchise cornerstone.
on Thursday night, moving up one spot in a trade with the New York Jets to make sure they didn't miss out on their most dire need.McCarthy went 27-1 as a college starter and won last season's national championship with Michigan, a defense-driven and run-first team that raised questions about the 6-foot-2, 219-pound passer’s potential. He completed an FBS-best 68% of his attempts under pressure last season.
That put the Vikings in danger of having a team like the quarterback-needy Denver Broncos or Las Vegas Raiders leapfrogging them, so they executed a swap with the Jets to ensure they would get McCarthy. The Vikings sent fourth- and fifth-round selections to the Jets for a sixth-rounder to complete the deal.
The highest the Vikings ever drafted a quarterback prior to this year was Daunte Culpepper at No. 11 in 1999. They’ve used a first-round pick on a quarterback only four other times in the franchise’s 63-year history, with Teddy Bridgewater in 2014, Christian Ponder in 2011 and Tommy Kramer in 1977 the others. Pro Football Hall of Fame member Fran Tarkenton was a third-rounder in 1961, though he was the 29th overall pick at that pre-merger time when the NFL had only 14 teams.
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