With Kirk Cousins out for the rest of the season with an Achilles injury, what's next for the Vikings? Can — and should — their rebuild remain competitive?
An MRI on Monday confirmed what the Vikings had feared Sunday: Cousins will now be out for the season after tearing his right Achilles at Lambeau Field. And now the Vikings have an even more complicated decision to make.
Cousins is currently tied for the NFL lead in passing touchdowns. He has the most completions, the most attempts, the second-most passing yards and the third-best quarterback rating.
The path forward that likely yields the best results is the hardest for a coaching and front-office staff to accept: arebuild. The worse the Vikings do, the better draft pick they get and the easier their quarterback crisis will be to solve. But for a team that didn't want to tear down to the studs in the first place, switching course now is a difficult concept to comprehend.
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