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Earlier this season the Minnesota Vikings employed a quarterback in clear contention for the 2024 NFL MVP award. Just a couple weeks later, Sam Darnold is still the Vikings QB.
Entering their showdown this Sunday with the Detroit Lions for first place in the NFC North, the unbeaten Minnesota Vikings are the NFL’s most surprising team through the opening six weeks of the 2024 season.
In June, the Associated Press clarified the guidelines for the official Comeback Player of the Year award. As of last week, betting trends showed that folks weren't necessarily heeding the change.
The Vikings were off over the weekend and the rest of the NFC North showed just how tough it will be to win the division with commanding wins across the board.
By the look of their early regular season record, the Minnesota Vikings don’t appear to need much luck. The offense had another thing go their way on Monday that will make quarterback Sam Darnold’s life a little easier in Week 7.
No, Sam Darnold won’t win the comeback player of the year in 2024 because of new guidelines by the Associated Press. But they got positive injury news on the Aaron Jones front.
The Minnesota Vikings are undefeated and in the midst of a well-deserved bye week. They are among the top contenders to win a Super Bowl. Kevin O’Connell has the offense humming, and Brian Flores is working wonders on defense.
Don't call it a comeback for Vikings QB Sam Darnold, he's been here the whole time.
Geno Smith’s memorable 2022 season earned him the NFL Comeback Player of the Year honor, but a new clarification to the award makes his win hypocritical.
The Minnesota Vikings and quarterback Sam Darnold have been the surprise of the NFL during in their 5-0 start. As Vikings fullback C.J. Ham tells it though, those inside the organization have not been surprised by the team's hot start and are going as far as Darnold takes them.
The Minnesota Vikings are 5-0 heading into the bye week and the offense has seen its fair share of both successes and struggles. Quarterback Sam Darnold won the NFC Offensive Player of the Month award for September after throwing a league-leading 11 touchdowns and bringing the Vikings to 20-point leads in three of their first four games.
ESPN's Seth Walder wrote a recent story revisiting his preseason bold prediction for all 32 NFL teams. For the Vikings, his prediction was that Sam Darnold "will finish the season outside the top 20 in QBR." Five weeks into the season, Darnold is 14th in QBR, so while he seems unlikely to finish 21st or worse, it's not out of the question.
After a perfect start, Minnesota Vikings fans have little to complain about. Even though the record is immaculate, Kevin O’Connell’s team isn’t flawless.
Despite a shaky six quarters leading into the bye, Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell remains confident in quarterback Sam Darnold as the Vikings are one of just two undefeated teams left in the NFL.
They nearly blew a double-digit lead for the second straight week, but that hasn't deterred national media from continuing to hype up the 5-0 Vikings. Minnesota largely stayed stagnant in this week's power rankings.
The Minnesota Vikings didn't have a lot of success on offense in their 23-17 win over the New York Jets on Sunday morning, but they did find a way to pull out the victory.
The 4-0 Minnesota Vikings opened up the NFL London Games series against the 2-2 New York Jets. The London games have been inharmonious historically and this game wasn’t much different.
The Vikings are the NFC’s only remaining undefeated team, and their play on offense has been a key factor in that early-season success. Specifically, the performance of quarterback Sam Darnold has raised eyebrows given how he was expected to perform in 2024.
I’m rooting for Sam Darnold, and I’m not the only one. Or at least I shouldn’t be. In fact, most people should be invested in the surprising early success of the Minnesota Vikings starting quarterback because, on some level, he is representing the vast majority of us every time he plays.
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold has had a tremendous start to the season and he was recognized by the National Football League by being named NFC Offensive Player of the Month for September.
Sam Darnold has turned into a legitimate NFL MVP candidate four years after the New York Jets gave up on him, but the quarterback does not want to rub the success in the face of his former team.
Through the first four weeks of the 2024 NFL season Sam Darnold has led the Minnesota Vikings to a perfect 4-0 record. Of course he wasn’t expected to be this good, and it seems that preconceived notion continues to hold him back.
Sam Darnold added another chapter to his improbable comeback story. The Vikings' QB1 led Minnesota to a 31-29 win over the rival Green Bay Packers on Sunday.
In his seventh season in the NFL, Sam Darnold is rejuvenating a career many had written off as a lost cause.
The Vikings were given a scare on Sunday when Sam Darnold suffered a knee injury, but fortunately, the quarterback is not dealing with anything serious.
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