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>> In the 2018 NFL draft, with the 10th overall pick — the same pick the Vikings used to choose QB J.J. McCarthy out of Michigan in 2024 — the Cardinals picked QB Josh Rosen out of UCLA. That season, Arizona finished 3-13. In the next draft, with the No. 1 overall pick, the Cardinals chose QB Kyler Murray out of Oklahoma, and in two ensuing nondescript years in Miami and Atlanta, Rosen’s career was finished.

The way it looks now, next year the Vikings could target one of three veteran QBs — Murray, Trevor Lawrence or Tua Tagovailoa — and perhaps Kirk Cousins, who will be cut by Atlanta in March. A good starting QB now makes between $45 million and $50 million a season.

In a trade for Murray, who is guaranteed $40 million next year, the Vikings probably would have to pick up just $20 million or so and not give up a high draft pick. The Cardinals could be ready to move on from Murray, 28, who is mobile with a strong arm. He would seem the most likely target for the Vikings.

>> Vikings linebacker Andrew Van Ginkel’s absence (neck) the last four games remains puzzling.

>> Paul Theofanous, the hard-driving agent for Kirill Kaprizov, is expected to make nearly $5 million for negotiating the Wild star’s new $136 million, eight-year contract. There’s buzz that the agent initially wanted $19 million a year from the Wild, but that Kaprizov figured $17 million was enough.

>> Rather than attempt to privately finance a new arena, look for new Timberwolves-Lynx owners Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez to seek a public-private deal for a remodel of Target Center.

>> Pssst: Seattle manager Dan Wilson, the former Gophers catcher who last week was nine outs from taking the Mariners to the World Series, was interested in the Gophers coaching job two years ago. His wife Annie and son Eli, who also played for the Gophers, are Minnesota grads.

>> George Springer, whose dramatic three-run homer in Game 7 Monday against Seattle propelled Toronto into the World Series, played against the Gophers for UConn in college. He was pretty much the same hitter then as now, a home run or nothing.

Springer was drafted out of high school by the Twins in the 48th round of the 2008 amateur draft but declined to sign. His boyhood idol was Torii Hunter. “I jumped out of my seat” when Springer hit the game-winning homer against Seattle last week, Hunter told the Pioneer Press.

>> Nebraska men’s basketball coach Fred Hoiberg, via private jet visits and a “healthy” name, image and license (NIL) deal, got a commitment from Cretin-Derham Hall’s 6-7, 200-pound junior wing Ty Schlagel.

>> It could take five years, but there’s little doubt that the University of St. Thomas, led by coach Johnny Tauer with the Tommies’ new $183 million arena, will join Marquette, Creighton, UConn, Villanova and Georgetown, among others, in the Big East Conference.

>> As part of James Franklin’s $49 million football buyout from Penn State, the fired coach will make $21,917 per day until 2031, MLFootball computes.

>> That was Hall of Fame former Brewer Paul Molitor from St. Paul making the ceremonial first pitch for the Game 5 playoff that ended the Cubs’ season in Milwaukee.

>> At Concordia University-St. Paul, Louie Varland’s fastball was 85 mph. With the Twins, and now with the Blue Jays in the World Series, the North St. Paul’s heater is 95 mph.

>> In the NBA’s annual GM survey, Cretin-Derham grad Sean Sweeney, now of the Spurs, received mention as one of the best assistant coach in the league.

>> Former Hastings High valedictorian Pat Fraher, 51, is beginning his 23rd season as a NBA official.

>> If North Oaks native Frankie Capan III, who won $202,000 in the recent PGA Tour event in Jackson, Miss., doesn’t make the top 100 in PGA Tour earnings this year, he‘ll revert to the Korn Ferry Tour for 2026. To date, he’s earned $821,000, No. 138 on the money list.

>> With a membership initiation in the $100,000 range, Interlachen Country Club has a waiting list of 142.

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>> Former Twins star Torii Hunter on the Twins’ process in finding a manager: “You hire slow and fire fast.”