Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins was playing about as well as he has in his career before he suffered a season-ending torn Achilles tendon against the Green Bay Packers last Sunday.
That’s obviously a major blow for the team, and for head coach Kevin O’Connell, whose offense was a perfect structure for Cousins. On Tuesday, the Vikings traded a sixth-round pick to the Arizona Cardinals for quarterback Josh Dobbs and a seventh-round pick that could become a conditional sixth-round pick.
A 2017 fourth-round pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers out of Tennessee, Dobbs is now on his seventh NFL team, He was traded from the Cleveland Browns to the Cardinals just before the 2023 season, and with Kyler Murray’s injury situation, he became Arizona’s starting quarterback pretty quickly.