A little more than a year after Sam Darnold turned his NFL career around with the Minnesota Vikings, the world watched him help the Seattle Seahawks emerge victorious over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 60 on Sunday.
Darnold leading the Seahawks to a Super Bowl win in his first season with the team clearly isn't what anyone from the Vikings thought would happen when they let him walk in free agency last March.
But that's the problem.
Minnesota hired Kevin O'Connell as its head coach in 2022 to find the team a franchise quarterback.