O'Connell said he plans on meeting one-on-one with McCarthy every week.
J.J. McCarthy won't be playing at all this season, but that doesn't mean he's not going to be involved. Head coach Kevin O'Connell will make sure of that. The Vikings want their rookie quarterback to be around the team and connected to everything they do over the course of the next four-plus months.
"I want to see him, I want his teammates to see him every day," O'Connell said on Wednesday. "I want him in meetings. I'm going to meet with him personally one day a week and make sure that I can be challenging him on his ownership of the game plans, the 'why' behind things we're doing, play intent for me, making sure he's still having a major role, leadership-wise, with especially that young rookie class.
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