Vikings offense struggles as injuries pile up

The Minnesota Vikings are facing large problems aft conscionable 2 games into the NFL season. The team's onslaught was already weak, and injuries marque the concern adjacent much difficult. Starting quarterback, 22-year-old JJ McCarthy, volition astir apt not play successful the adjacent circular erstwhile the Vikings play the Cincinnati Bengals. The young NCAA champion with Michigan suffered a sprained ankle ligament during a second-round nonaccomplishment to the Atlanta Falcons.

If McCarthy is incapable to play, 32-year-old Carson Wentz, an experienced person and erstwhile subordinate of the Philadelphia Eagles, who has shown large games aboriginal successful his career, volition instrumentality the field. The Vikings' discourtesy was troubled and injury-free; JJ struggled successful the archetypal 2 games and played lone 1 bully half. His passing crippled was peculiarly poor, and helium missed past play owed to a genu wounded successful the preseason.

Aaron Jones

The wounded besides affected the runner, 31-year-old Aaron Jones, who was placed connected the injured database owed to a occupation with his backmost and volition miss astatine slightest the adjacent 4 games. In his absence, the archetypal enactment successful the backfield becomes 24-year-old Jordan Mason, who successful the archetypal 2 rounds was already the team's champion rusher with 24 carries for 98 yards. Jones had 13 carries for 46 yards successful the aforesaid period. In a 22-6 nonaccomplishment to the Falcons, Mason had 8 carries for 23 yards, and the Vikings are present 1-1.

Additional problems travel from the line; starting near tackle Christian Darrisaw has yet to play owed to a genu injury, his backup Justin Skule is successful the concussion protocol, portion starting halfway Ryan Kelly is besides injured. Catcher Jordan Addison has 1 much crippled suspended for failing a doping test.

The Vikings' adjacent crippled is against the Bengals connected Sunday astatine 7 p.m., and the squad indispensable find a mode to amended its discourtesy and stay competitory contempt galore problems and injuries.

The aboriginal of this sanction is surely interesting, and fans anticipation that everything volition enactment out, hoping they tin bash large things successful the future.