'I Think I'll Sign with the QB Whisperer.'
Said Aaron Rodgers, maybe
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A quarterback named Sam Darnold elected on Monday not to return to the Minnesota Vikings, the team for which he played in the NFL last season. It wasn’t personal. In fact, the one season he spent with the Vikings represented far and away the finest performance of Darnold’s pro career.
It’s safe to say that Darnold loves the Vikings. He simply couldn’t stay with them. And that’ll happen when some other team offers you a hundred million bucks to reach a different decision.
So Sam Darnold, having been transmorgrified in one single Minnesota fall and winter into a pure superstar of an NFL quarterback after a perfectly mediocre career, signed for $100.5 million with the Seattle Seahawks, of which $55 million became immediately and permanently guaranteed. Darnold can count his loot this season while running from the opposing defenders who’ll blast through Seattle’s sieve of a front line with malice in their hearts.