Once-Promising Vikings QB Cut by Seattle
Remember Jaren Hall? He’s looking for a new job.
Once-Promising Vikings QB Cut by Seattle
The Seattle Seahawks, suddenly with oodles of quarterback options, cut Hall loose this week, and he’ll hit the waiver wire, hoping to latch onto a new team before too long.
Jaren Hall Dropped by Seahawks
The 33rd Team‘s Ari Meirov tweeted Tuesday, “The Seahawks waived former BYU QB Jaren Hall, and with the Sam Howell trade during the draft, their QB room now consists of Sam Darnold, Drew Lock, and Jalen Milroe.”
SI.com’s Matt Urben added context: “On Tuesday, the Seattle Seahawks waived four players, including quarterback Jaren Hall, in their first post-draft roster cleanse. The team also waived linebacker Michael Dowell, center Michael Novitsky and edge Kenneth Odumegwu. Once the Seahawks added third-round pick Jalen Milroe in the 2025 NFL draft, the writing was on the wall for Hall. The former fifth-round draft pick began his career with the Minnesota Vikings in 2023.”
“Hall appeared in three games (two starts) for the Vikings, passing for 168 yards and one interception. Seattle scooped up the former BYU standout after he was waived by Minnesota at the start of the 2024 season. The 27-year-old did not appear in a regular season game for the Seahawks last season.”
That’s a wrap for Hall’s rather underwhelming stop in the Emerald City.
Hall’s Time in Minnesota
Before J.J. McCarthy became a Viking in 2024, there was Hall — the one youth option on Minnesota’s depth chart at the end of the Kirk Cousins era.
Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah drafted Hall from Round 5 in 2023, and many had grand plans for the passer because of a little bit of upside and his age-25 game-readiness that year. Folks weren’t sure when the Cousins era would end, and when Hall joined the team, in theory, he could’ve blossomed as a replacement plan.
Six months after Adofo-Mensah drafted him, Hall was called upon to start when Cousins tore his Achilles, but he looked woefully unprepared outside of two decent drives in a game against the Atlanta Falcons.
Then, with McCarthy and Sam Darnold in the house last summer, Hall was an odd man out during roster trimdowns.
He latched onto Seattle’s roster for a total of eight months.
The Seahawks’ QBs without Hall
Seattle has conducted a whirlwind of quarterback movement this offseason. It traded Geno Smith to the Las Vegas Raiders after insisting earlier in the offseason that he was “their guy.” General manager John Schneider signed the aforementioned Darnold soon after, the man who quarterbacked Minnesota last year. Drew Lock came aboard six weeks later.
Last weekend, during the draft, Schneider selected Alabama’s Jalen Milroe and traded Sam Howell to Minnesota, a round-robin of sorts.
So, Seattle’s quarterback room went from this:
- Geno Smith
- Sam Howell
- Jaren Hall
… to this:
- Sam Darnold
- Drew Lock
- Jalen Milroe
Vikings’ Leadership on Hall Last Summer
Adofo-Mensah said about Hall after his roster waiver last August: “Jaren has done a great job for us. Obviously, he had really improved over the preseason. We talk, and I use that ‘development’ word a lot. And with quarterbacks, you don’t want to throw these guys in too early. And I think with him, we just want more time to where we’re going to.”
“I’ve learned from last season that you’re either one snap away or one snap from being one snap away. We just wanted to be in a position where we felt, you know, adding Brett to the room feels good. We feel good about that decision, but also giving us more time to pour into Jaren and work with him if he so chooses to do that.”
And Kevin O’Connell added: “I fully believe in Jaren Hall’s future. I believe that we brought Jaren here for a long-term process that, quite honestly, you guys have heard me talk about quarterback journeys a lot. That timeline got sped up when we went through the numbers at the position we did a year ago.”
“And all Jaren has done, you know, since that is do all the right things, improve. I thought he was, you know, showing a lot of those things in the preseason action. That move was really indicative of knowing what we went through last year, having the opportunity to have a couple veteran guys behind Sam that give us an opportunity, with comfort in the system.”
Future Prognosis
Hall may or may not be claimed off waivers on Wednesday, but some team will add him to its roster as a QB3 candidate in the coming days or weeks. He profiles as an ideal QB3 in the pros.
Otherwise, a practice squad assignment — possibly even in Minnesota — could await Hall.
He turned 27 last month.
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