{"id":2471,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/2471","headline":"Vikings called Raiders about Cousins before Wentz's Monday night collapse","dek":"Minnesota reached out midday Monday but waited to see how Carson Wentz looked before pushing the trade through.","body":"The Vikings' move for Kirk Cousins was already in motion before Carson Wentz had his rough Monday night, according to ESPN. Minnesota first contacted the Raiders \"midday Monday,\" ahead of its Week 9 game against the Bills, but told Las Vegas it wanted to see how Wentz performed that night before getting into real negotiations.\n\nWhat it saw apparently settled things. Wentz finished with an 8.9 passer rating in a 23-6 loss, and the Vikings wasted no time after that. They got back in touch with the Raiders before 6:00 a.m. PT on Tuesday, and the two sides worked out the trade from there.\n\nRaiders GM John Spytek addressed the deal at a Tuesday press conference, noting he never initiated contact on Cousins himself. The timeline suggests Minnesota was already hedging on Wentz before his Monday night struggles, using the game as confirmation rather than the trigger for making a move.","published_at":"2026-11-14T19:33:02.214278+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Report: Vikings first reached out to Raiders about Kirk Cousins on "midday Monday"","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/report-vikings-first-reached-raiders-161232384.html"},{"outlet":"Pro Football Talk","publisher":"NBC Sports","title":"Report: Vikings first reached out to Raiders about Kirk Cousins on \"midday Monday\"","url":"https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/report-vikings-first-reached-out-to-raiders-about-kirk-cousins-on-monday-afternoon"},{"outlet":"ESPN","publisher":"ESPN","title":"Sources: Vikings made initial Cousins trade call before MNF meltdown","url":"https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50479874/sources-vikings-first-called-kirk-cousins-mnf"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Cris Carter Explains Why Vikings Brought Back Kirk Cousins","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/cris-carter-explains-why-vikings-121507539.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Minnesota Vikings’ Kirk Cousins Trade Features Interesting Twist","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/minnesota-vikings-kirk-cousins-trade-172948789.html"},{"outlet":"New York Post","publisher":"New York Post","title":"Timeline of Kirk Cousins pursuit revealed before Vikings’ seismic trade","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/11/14/sports/how-the-vikings-kirk-cousins-trade-came-together/"}],"image":{"url":"https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/2ef58dfc129b74244f2a48ccf25b5a4ba82e19998b7ab2bb06e04686dcf6cf42/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_w1200_h675%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fprofootballtalk.nbcsports.com%2F08ff46c7ce36796e90409456cb415b22.jpg","credit":"Yahoo Sports","width":1200},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}