The Minnesota Vikings sit at 3-5 ahead of its Monday night football showdown with the Chicago Bears. The Vikings are coming off their first back-to-back winning stretch all season and have slowly entered back into the playoff conversation.
No matter what happens throughout the remainder of the 2020 season, the Vikings should be focused on drafting a quarterback in the 2021 NFL Draft. Kirk Cousins has shown flashes of being a great quarterback, but his turnovers have held the team back in a couple of losses.
Though the Vikings extended Cousins this offseason, his play hasn’t warranted him a guarantee of riding out the rest of his contract. On top of Cousins shaky start to 2020, the Vikings backup situation is mediocre at best.
BYU’s Zach Wilson should be a player that the team focuses on for the remainder of the 2020 collegiate season. Even if that means sitting behind Cousins for a year or two, the time is still now to take a chance on a young quarterback.
Through his first eight games of the season Wilson is completing over 75% of his passes for 2,512 yards, 22 touchdowns and just two interceptions. He’s the kind of player who could hypothetically come in and help the Vikings almost right away.
Here is the interview, as conducted by Vikings Wire’s Jack Day.