Vikes Views: Wentz to the Rescue?

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - OCTOBER 04: Carson Wentz #11 of the Minnesota Vikings warms up during an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins at U.S. Bank Stadium on October 4, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images) | Getty Images The Minnesota Vikings have announced they will start Carson Wentz at Quarterback for Monday Night Football against the Buffalo Bills. Kyler Murray is nursing a hamstring injury and will be unable to suit up. There is already plenty of speculation that this is a soft benching. I m not a doctor, nor do I have any interest in pretending to be one, so I ll take the team at its word and assume Murray is injured. What I do wonder is whether the Vikings might actually be better off this week because of it. Wentz helped the Vikings win their first two games, though nobody is going to confuse those performances with the 2017 version of Carson Wentz. The 9-3 victory over Chicago was about as exciting as watching paint dry, but he avoided t