CHICAGO — The Minnesota Vikings announced the following players will be inactive for their Week 1 game of 2025 at the Chicago Bears:

Quarterback Max Brosmer (third quarterback)
Safety Harrison Smith
Running back Zavier Scott
Guard Joe Huber
Tackle Christian Darrisaw
Defensive lineman Elijah Williams
Smith has been recovering from an August illness and did not travel with the team.
Darrisaw has been working his way back from a knee injury suffered in Week 8 of the 2024 season.
Brosmer will dress but only play if Vikings quarterbacks J.J. McCarthy and Carson Wentz suffer injuries.
Earlier Monday, Minnesota used a standard elevation for receiver Tim Jones from the practice squad.

Bears Inactives
Chicago announced the following players will be inactive:
Defensive back Jaylon Johnson
Defensive back Kyler Gordon
Quarterback Case Keenum (third quarterback)
Running back Roschon Johnson
Linebacker T.J. Edwards
Offensive line Kiran Amegadjie
Defensive lineman Shemar Turner
Keenum, the former Viking, will dress but only play if Bears quarterbacks Caleb Williams and Tyson Bagent suffer injuries.
Chicago elevated linebacker Carl Jones, Jr., and defensive lineman Tanoh Kpassagnon from its practice squad.

https://www.vikings.com/news/bears-inact...eek-1-2025

https://www.vikings.com/news/bears-inact...eek-1-2025

Not good news but makes sense with shit turf

Vikings already won the offseason without playing a game

Soldier Field turf really sucks today

We have all been waiting for this game since the moment we heard Goodell say JJ McCarthy, so it seems a little surreal it is going to happen in a few hours.  I definitely feel an extra level of nerves for the game.  I think we all know we can't put too much into one road game, but definitely want to see the signs of potential, that he is the guy many of us think he is.  Also just from a personal standpoint, he is such a good kid, you want to see him succeed.

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The #Vikings have elevated WR Tim Jones to the active roster for #MINvsCHI.

Let me say first, I personally don't see Dart as a franchise QB. But regardless, if Dart ends up starting, which is what I think is going to happen in a few weeks, the Giants will ruin him with this team. I mentioned a month ago that Drake Maye is my choice behind Caleb Williams to be the 2 QBs that don't make it long term out of the 2024 1st round QB class and the Patriots are doing it to him. 2 different coordinators in your first 2 years is such a huge impediment to long term success, along with having the surround be poor. The Giants are a talented-deprived team, just like New England has been and how Chicago was last year. Johnson's offensive is going to be too complex for Caleb. Dart will go down this same path. 

JMO, Jaxson Dart is going to be an INT machine in the NFL. I like the kid otherwise, but it'll be something he never overcomes in the NFL. JMO.

Alec Lewis
@alec_lewis

It’s gameday.

And, at long last, J.J. McCarthy’s time.

There is almost a defiant sense of empowerment in the Vikings’ plan with the QB for 2025. So far, it has produced his characteristic energy.

“He glows. And when you’re around him, you glow also.”

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6602978...-football/

After looking at the stat line and seeing that flub at the end of the game, I am starting to become a true believer in our QB whisperer.  Sammy did not light the world on fire against  the Niners. And he did not benefit from KOC in his ear.  Is this the real Sam Darnold?  If so, we saw the best of him last year and we are fortunate to have let nature take its course.