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🗞️ Story file #1666

Vikings acquire quarterback before trade deadline

Nov 10, 3 AM ET to Nov 11, 5 AM ET

📰 read it at: The Guardian AP Star Tribune The Washington Post USA Today Chicago Tribune Fox News New York Post

👣 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.

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

📰 Spread

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💬 Quoted

  1. “MNF”1
  2. “prime”1

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📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

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

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • AP (2 wordings): “In a wide-open NFL, trade deadline is an opportunity for a few teams to get a big boost” → “Jaguars take a Super Bowl swing by trading for Eagles DT Jordan Davis and Falcons S Jessie Bates”
  • New York Post (5 wordings): “NFL trade deadline live updates: Jaguars off to fast start with big names still available” → “NFL trade deadline live updates: Colts trade Josh Downs to Chiefs”
  • 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 (3 wordings): “NFL trade deadline: Contenders load up as other teams…” → “NFL trade deadline live: Vikings pull off blockbuster for new QB”
📰 Every outlet's headline 8left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

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

🧶 Retelling

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🧶 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)

    🦋 a post on Bluesky · 70 likes, 9 reposts

    🦋 a post on Bluesky · 86 likes, 2 reposts

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🗣️ Names in it

NFLJaguars

🔎 Checking

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🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

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🧵 Vikings acquire Kirk Cousins

  1. Vikings acquire quarterback before trade deadline (this story)

    Nov 10, 3 AM ET

  2. Kirk Cousins traded to Vikings in deal involving 3rd-rounder

    Nov 10, 4 PM ET