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Nine years later, another injury to a Vikings quarterback has unlocked Wentz\u2019s latest opportunity to play. And play he will, as Minnesota\u2019s starter against the Bengals and former Vikings backup Jake Browning.<\/p>\n
For Wentz, he\u2019ll finally be taking the field for the team he rooted for as a child. <\/p>\n
\u201cI used to come to the Metrodome, and I was waving the towel,\u201d Wentz told reporters<\/a><\/span> on Wednesday. \u201cAnd so running out of that tunnel this week will probably hit me a little bit different — in a really cool, kind of surreal way.\u201d<\/p>\n Wentz will be the first player to start for six different teams in six consecutive seasons<\/a><\/span>: Eagles (2020), Colts (2021), Commanders (2022), Rams (2023), Chiefs (2024), and Vikings (2025). Today\u2019s game will be his 95th career regular-season start.<\/p>\n He has had some solid seasons. In 2017, he was on track for the league MVP award until suffering a torn ACL against the Rams in December. In 2019, he threw 27 touchdown passes against seven interceptions for the Eagles. (He exited the wild-card loss to the Seahawks with a concussion.) In 2021 with the Colts, Wentz again threw 27 touchdown passes against only seven interceptions during the lone 17-start season of his career.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t enough to get him a second year in Indy. Injuries marred his sole season with the Commanders. After that, Wentz was relegated to backup status, waiting until November 2023 to get a shot with the Rams.<\/p>\n Last year, he was the wire-to-wire understudy to Patrick Mahomes in Kansas City, with Wentz\u2019s lone start coming in a meaningless Week 18 game.<\/p>\n Wentz has shown high-level skills. (He also has thrown a left-handed pick six from his own end zone<\/a><\/span>.) Vikings coach Kevin O\u2019Connell has shown that he can get a quarterback up to speed quickly, as he did with Josh Dobbs after Kirk Cousins suffered a torn Achilles midway through the 2023 season. <\/p>\n However it goes, Wentz is getting his shot, with his boyhood favorite team. If it goes well, J.J. McCarthy\u2019s ankle could take a little longer to heal. If it doesn\u2019t, undrafted rookie Max Brosmer could be getting a chance to keep the ship from sinking.\n <\/p><\/div>\n window.fbAsyncInit = function() { };<\/p>\n (function(d, s, id){ Carson Wentz\u2019s career as a starter was expedited by an injury to a Vikings quarterback. Teddy Bridgewater\u2019s torn ACL forced Minnesota to scramble for help, prompting the Eagles to collect a first-round pick and a fourth-round pick for Sam Bradford \u2014 and pushing Wentz into the unquestioned QB1 role in Philly. Nine years later, another … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Carson-Wentz-gets-his-latest-start-with-the-team-he.com2Fbrightspot2F9c2F8.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3506,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions\/3506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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