Despite hiring his former quarterbacks coach in Tennessee and the fact that he’s working out with Adrian Peterson this offseason, the NFL Network’s Steve Wyche reports that the Vikings have not held internal discussions about acquiring Vince Young.
The Young-to-Vikings rumors started in January after the team hired his former quarterbacks coach, Craig Johnson, for the same position in Minnesota. And now that Young and AP have started working out together, there’s growing sentiment that VY could wind up starting in Minnesota next year while rookie Christian Ponder holds the clipboard.
But the Vikings haven’t even considered that possibility according to Wyche. It would make sense for the Vikes to acquire a veteran quarterback to help tutor Ponder, but it seems like a reach for them to go after Young (a player with maturity issues).
The more likely scenario is that Minnesota will wait for Washington to cut Donovan McNabb and then sign him to a two-year deal to help aid Ponder’s development. McNabb has played in the West Coast Offense his entire career and the Vikings hired former Atlanta QB coach Bill Musgrave, who will be installing his version of the WCO this year. Granted, there’s no guarantee that McNabb would want to sign with Minnesota knowing that he would eventually have to turn the offense over to Ponder, but at least the Vikings would give him the opportunity to start next year. (Assuming of course that Ponder doesn’t set the world on fire in training camp and preseason and win the job outright…if there’s even a training camp and preseason, that is.)
