Tarvaris Jackson’s time with the Minnesota Vikings is likely coming to an end. The team that drafted the Alabama State quarterback in 2006 declined to offer him a contact tender before the NFL lockout.
Tarvaris Jackson Looking Forward To Fresh Start After Vikings Tenure
“Since Day 1, I don’t really think I was really welcome here anyways,” Jackson said to the Minneapolis Star Tribune in a Tuesday report. “Just the way things happened, like the way I was thrown into there, the way where it was me or Brett [Favre] or all this stuff. Just a lot of different things played into it that kind of soured our relationship.”
Jackson’s endless saga with former coach Brad Childress became well-documented in Minnesota as the years pressed on. Never presented the full confidence of the man who drafted him, the young quarterback was yanked in-and-out of the starting lineup more times than he wished to count, his assurance dropping with each passing season.
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