Kartje: Case Keenum deserves more credit for getting Vikings this far

Case Keenum understood, as well as anyone, that he was a placeholder.
He understood two Aprils ago, when the Rams traded up for the No. 1 pick and two weeks later, when they drafted Jared Goff. Keenum heard the press conference, same as we all did, when Jeff Fisher and Les Snead declared Goff “our guy” and the Rams “franchise quarterback”, and in the months that followed, as the urgency for Goff’s ascension grew feverish and the chants at the Coliseum began and repo