The New York Giants didn’t exactly make a blockbuster trade when they went looking for another quarterback. Yet, what looked like a desperate midseason move turned into a surprisingly financial gain for Big Blue.
The Arizona Cardinals are catching the New York Giants in the middle of a strange week. New York is 2-1 and tied for first place in the NFC East, and it has also lost its starting quarterback, traded for J.J.
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The New York Giants pulled off a surprising trade and landed quarterback J.J. McCarthy. The trade came as a shocker for the MLB fans as well as for McCarthy himself.
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J.J. McCarthy is likely to be the emergency No. 3 quarterback for his team again Sunday, under far different circumstances than in the first three games.
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On Friday, McCarthy offered his first public comments on that trade.
The New York Giants took a flier on a project quarterback when they acquired McCarthy from the Minnesota Vikings for a 2027 fifth-round draft choice earlier this week.
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The 3-0 Vikings return home to U.S. Bank Stadium this Sunday as they welcome the winless Dolphins to town. Of course, the game itself has largely taken a back seat in discourse to the J.J.
The perception exists that first-year Giants head coach John Harbaugh will eventually want to see McCarthy take in-game snaps before Week 18 wraps up.
Winston completed 25 of 49 total passes (51 percent) for 229 yards with no touchdowns and one interception in his two outings following Jaxson Dart's injury.
Harbaugh happens to be close to somebody who knows McCarthy exceedingly well.
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The Giants agreed this past Monday to send the Minnesota Vikings a 2027 fifth-round draft pick for McCarthy.
This past Monday, the Giants agreed to send the Minnesota Vikings a 2027 fifth-round draft pick for McCarthy.
Why did the Vikings pass on Aaron Rodgers? And how did things go off the rails for McCarthy in Minnesota?
Those running the Minnesota Vikings said plenty about how they viewed McCarthy when they agreed this past Monday to trade the third-year quarterback to the Giants for a 2027 fifth-round draft pick.
Now that J.J. McCarthy is traded, there could be some more moves on the way, and Nolan Teasley hinted as such.
One of the more surprising NFL-related events of September involved the New York Giants agreeing on Monday to send the Minnesota Vikings a 2027 fifth-round draft pick for backup quarterback J.J. McCarthy.
The Minnesota Vikings officially ended their J.J. McCarthy experiment when they agreed on Monday to trade the third-year quarterback to the New York Giants for a 2027 fifth-round draft pick.
The Giants pulled off a stunning trade when they agreed on Monday to send the Vikings a 2027 fifth-round draft pick for backup quarterback and 2024 first-round draft choice J.J. McCarthy.
Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell believes franchises bail on their struggling young quarterbacks too often. That didn't stop him from abandoning the J.J. McCarthy experiment.
In 2025, McCarthy appeared in 10 games for the Vikings and completed 57.6 percent of his passes for 1,632 yards, 11 touchdowns and 12 interceptions.
Giants starting QB Jaxson Dart went down with a knee injury that will keep him out of action through at least the rest of the regular season.
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