Vikings acquire quarterback before trade deadline

🗞️ Story file #1666

Vikings acquire quarterback before trade deadline

Nov 10, 3 AM ET to Nov 10, 5 PM ET

11outlets carried it
🫏5 · 1 · 5🐘left · center · right
14 hourson the front pages
11front pages at once, at its peak
38people retold it online
1 of 2parts of a saga

📰 read it at: The Guardian AP Star Tribune The Washington Post USA Today Chicago Tribune The Epoch Times Fox News IJR New York Post The Daily Caller

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Nov 10, 3 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Washington Post
Nov 10, 5 AM ETretold online by 38 people
Nov 10, 12 PM ETpeak: on 11 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 10, 3 AM to Nov 10, 5 PM ET (peak 11), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

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phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (3 wordings): “In a wide-open NFL, trade deadline is an opportunity for a few teams to get a big boost” → “Jaguars go all in to make a Super Bowl run with a flurry of moves, more NFL trades expected”
Fox News (2 wordings): “NFL Trade Deadline Grades: How Well Did Jaguars Do In Big Trades?” → “Jaguars are all in on winning the Super Bowl after completing three trades in one day to make a title push”
New York Post (5 wordings): “Jaguars getting Eagles’ Jordan Davis in NFL trade deadline blockbuster” → “Vikings get new quarterback before NFL trade deadline”
The Guardian (5 wordings): “NFL trade deadline 2026: Jonathan Taylor status, Vikings eye QB and more – live updates” → “NFL trade deadline 2026: Vikings reunite with Kirk Cousins; Colts stick with Taylor; 49ers get WR Allen – live reaction”
USA Today (4 wordings): “NFL trade deadline: Contenders load up as other teams…” → “NFL trade deadline: Vikings get new QB, Indy holds onto star RB”

📰 Every outlet's headline 11left to right by AllSides rating

The Guardian🕒 Nov 10, 12 PM ET NFL trade deadline 2026: Jonathan Taylor status, Vikings eye QB and more – live updates
AP🕒 Nov 9, 11 AM ET In a wide-open NFL, trade deadline is an opportunity for a few teams to get a big boost
Star Tribune🕒 Nov 10, 12 PM ET Live: Will Vikings trade for a QB before today’s deadline? Here’s the latest.
The Washington Post🕒 Nov 10, 3 AM ET How a busy NFL Sunday impacts Tuesday’s trade deadline
USA Today🕒 Nov 10, 12 AM ET NFL trade deadline: Contenders load up as other teams…
Chicago Tribune🕒 Nov 9, 9 AM ET NFL trade deadline: A look at who is available — and what the top contenders need
The Epoch Times🕒 Nov 10, 8 AM ET Jaguars Set Stage for Super Bowl Run With Trio of Blockbuster Trades on Defense
Fox News🕒 Nov 9, 7 PM ET NFL Trade Deadline Grades: How Well Did Jaguars Do In Big Trades?
IJR🕒 Nov 9, 7 PM ET Jaguars Acquire Jordan Davis for Draft Picks
New York Post🕒 Nov 9, 6 PM ET Jaguars getting Eagles’ Jordan Davis in NFL trade deadline blockbuster
The Daily Caller🕒 Nov 10, 10 AM ET NFL Team Goes All-In For Super Bowl Run With Blockbuster Trade

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

The Eagles traded Jordan Davis to the Jaguars for an insane haul of draft picks. Nov 10: told by 38 people (same issue)
🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky

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🗣️ Names in it

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what the fact-checkers looked into

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the running story it belongs to

🧵 Vikings acquire Kirk Cousins

Vikings acquire quarterback before trade deadline (this story)
Nov 10, 3 AM ET
Vikings acquire Kirk Cousins from Raiders for 3rd-rounder
Nov 10, 4 PM ET