Yesterday Minnesota Vikings starting quarterback Teddy Bridgewater suffered a knee injury during a non-contact injury. Bridgewater was taken to the hospital where they found out that he had a torn ACL and other structural damage to his knee. Fortunately, there was no nerve damage done to the knee so there are no long-term concerns. Unfortunately, he will not be playing this season. This is a huge blow to a Minnesota Vikings team, who was ready to take it to the next level after finishing 11-5 last season and losing in the playoffs against Seattle after missing a game-winning field goal.
Shaun Hill will now take over as starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings. There have been rumors that the Vikings could go after Mark Sanchez as a backup. The Vikings need to look for another quarterback quickly because right now they only have two healthy quarterbacks on the roster. With Teddy Bridgewater going down this will make Adrian Peterson face more blitzes than he already faces based on the fact that the defense knows he's going to have to put this team on his back as he has done before. If the Vikings expect Shaun Hill to be able to do half of what Bridgewater did, they're sadly mistaken and in for a long season. Especially since he has never even had a 3,000 passing yard season. Will see if the Vikings go after a veteran backup quarterback to be on the safe side.
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