Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy should turn off his phone for the next few weeks. The Vikings drafted McCarthy at No. 10 overall in 2024, three months after McCarthy won a national championship at Michigan. The vision was for McCarthy to replace veteran, increasingly expensive quarterback Kirk Cousins — resetting to the rookie scale at the most important position and giving Minnesota the flexibility to build a Super Bowl-caliber roster around McCarthy. It sort of played out like that in 2024, except McCarthy had...
