The first few days of NFL free agency have demonstrated the meticulousness the Vikings have used in advancing their plan for 2025, particularly at quarterback.
But here it is Thursday, and there is one nagging doubt about all of this: Are the Vikings really interested in going with a gut feel and their own research in a pursuit of veteran QB Aaron Rodgers?
However: Rodgers very easily could have signed with a team that has a clearer quarterback need by now. Pittsburgh and the New York Giants are at the top of that list, and they still logically are the favorites to get Rodgers.
The Vikings could have come out and said publicly that they aren’t interested in Rodgers.
But neither of those things have happened. Instead, national reports suggest the Vikings have an interest in Rodgers. And Star Tribune Vikings writer Ben Goessling in our conversation Thursday said [Rodgers-to-Minnesota can’t be ruled out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG15-dsN7rI).
This would be an almost absurd, shot-for-shot remake of Brett Favre’s journey to Minnesota in 2009, whereby there is the acrimonious departure from Green Bay multiple years after a replacement is drafted, a trade to the Jets and then free agency after a New York implosion.
Favre’s trip, of course, brought the Vikings to the brink of a Super Bowl. Hey, Brett, what do you think of Aaron possibly going to Minnesota?