It wasn’t so long ago that a lot of people expected Tarvaris Jackson to be traded or even cut in the wake of Brett Favre’s signing in Minnesota.
But Jackson wound up outplaying Sage Rosenfels in practice last year and would be the heavy favorite to start in Week One should Favre shock everyone and not return to football in 2010.
Jackson signed his one-year, $1.176 million contract tender Monday to return to the team. The Vikings only placed a low tender on him -- they would have received a third-rounder in return -- because they knew no other team would sign him to an offer sheet.