Dobbs (coach's decision) is inactive for Sunday night's game against the Cowboys, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports.
Dobbs will once again operate as the team's emergency quarterback in Week 8. He'll only enter the game if both Brock Purdy and Brandon Allen are forced to exit with injuries.
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49ers' Joshua Dobbs: Emergency QB versus Kansas City
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Dobbs (coach's decision) is inactive for Sunday's game against the Chiefs, Matt Barrows of The Athletic reports.
Dobbs is the Niners' emergency third quarterback behind Brock Purdy and Brandon Allen.
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49ers' Joshua Dobbs: Remains emergency QB
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Dobbs (coach's decision) is inactive for Thursday's contest against the Seahawks, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports.
Dobbs will operate as the team's emergency quarterback for the sixth consecutive week to open the 2024 season. The 29-year-old will only enter the game if both Brock Purdy and Brandon Allen suffer injuries versus Seattle.
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49ers' Joshua Dobbs: Emergency option again
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Dobbs (coach's decision) is inactive for Sunday's game against the Cardinals, Matt Barrows of The Athletic reports.
Once again, Dobbs will serve as the 49ers' emergency quarterback. He's technically inactive but will suit up and can play if Brock Purdy and Brandon Allen are both injured during Sunday's game.
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49ers' Joshua Dobbs: Emergency QB again
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Dobbs (coach's decision) is inactive for Sunday's game against the Patriots, Matt Barrows of The Athletic reports.
Once again, Dobbs will serve as the 49ers' emergency quarterback. He's technically inactive but will suit up and can play if Brock Purdy and Brandon Allen are both injured during Sunday's game.
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49ers' Joshua Dobbs: Emergency quarterback for Week 3
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Dobbs (coach's decision) is inactive for Sunday's game against the Rams, but he will serve as the emergency third quarterback, David Lombardi of The Athletic reports.
Dobbs will only see the field Sunday if starter Brock Purdy and backup Brandon Allen are both injured.
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49ers' Joshua Dobbs: Will be emergency quarterback
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Dobbs (coach's decision) is designated as San Francisco's emergency third quarterback for Monday's game versus the Jets, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports.
While technically inactive, Dobbs would be available for the 49ers in the event that both Brock Purdy and backup Brandon Allen went down due to injury. He appeared in 13 games last year with the Cardinals and the Vikings.
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49ers' Joshua Dobbs: Could secure backup QB role
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Dobbs may be the frontrunner to back up Brock Purdy in San Francisco after his performance in a 16-10 win over the Saints on Sunday, Kevin Patra of the team's official site reports.
Dobbs led the 49ers on three scoring drives while completing 12 of his 21 passing attempts for 133 yards, and also ran the ball three times for 25 yards and a touchdown. The Tennessee product is considered to be competing with Brandon Allen for the job, with head coach Kyle Shannahan not tipping his hand, stating, "Dobbs got to play a little bit more and I thought he did a real good job leading on some of those drives. When Brandon came in, he did the same. It was very similar to last week. The games have been tight, the practices have been tight. So, it's a good problem we have right now."
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49ers' Joshua Dobbs: First QB used after starter
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Dobbs was the first backup quarterback to enter Sunday's exhibition contest for San Francisco.
Dobbs wound up completing 57 percent of his passes for 133 yards and a rushing touchdown. Fellow backup Brandon Allen started the last preseason contest ahead of the Passtronaut, but the players reversed roles while serving as the reserves against the Saints. Brock Purdy (2-for-6, 11 yards) is the unquestioned starter despite some rusty throws Sunday, but Dobbs may have leaped ahead of Allen based on both production and usage as Week 1 approaches.
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49ers' Joshua Dobbs: Competing for backup role
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Dobbs will compete with Brandon Allen for the No. 2 quarterback role in San Francisco during the preseason, Matt Barrows of The Athletic reports.
The 49ers' star-studded roster has created no controversy over who will start come Week 1, leaving the battle for Brock Purdy's backup as the key competition to watch this preseason. Dobbs performed well in the team's first preseason contest, completing 70 percent of his passes for 146 yards and a rushing touchdown. The journeyman quarterback threw an interception, but it came on a failed Hail Mary attempt. The key takeaway from Saturday's exhibition was that Dobbs entered the contest in the second half after Allen, who completed 53.8 percent of his passes for 98 yards. The two veteran signal-callers will continue to prove their worth over the final two preseason tilts before head coach Kyle Shanahan decides who will enter the regular season as the No. 2 quarterback.
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Vikings' Joshua Dobbs: Tosses 13 TDs across 12 starts
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Dobbs appeared in 13 games during the 2023 season, completing 262 of 417 pass attempts (62.8 percent) for 2,464 yards, 13 touchdowns and 10 interceptions while adding 77 carries for 421 yards and six more touchdowns.
Coming into 2023, Dobbs had started just two NFL games since being taken in the fourth round of the 2017 NFL Draft by the Steelers. After ending 2022 as the Titans' starter, Dobbs signed with the Browns as a free agent but was traded to the Cardinals just ahead of Week 1. He started the first eight games of the season for Arizona but was acquired by the Vikings near the trade deadline after Minnesota lost Kirk Cousins to a season-ending Achilles' tear. Dobbs appeared in five games (four starts) for the Vikings before being benched in favor of Nick Mullens to close out the year. Dobbs had a turnover problem in 2023, giving the ball away 17 times across 13 games. He's scheduled to be a free agent in March and will likely only attract backup work.
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Vikings' Joshua Dobbs: Will be backup at Detroit
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Coach Kevin O'Connell said Friday that Dobbs will serve as the Vikings' No. 2 quarterback behind starter Nick Mullens in Sunday's game in Detroit.
Dobbs hasn't seen the field for the Vikings since he was benched in favor of Mullens during their Week 14 win at Las Vegas. The 28-year-old had been the Vikings' No. 3 signal-caller for the Week 17 loss to the Packers, but Dobbs will move up a spot on the depth chart for the regular-season finale while rookie Jaren Hall drops to third.
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Vikings' Joshua Dobbs: Benched in Week 14 win
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Dobbs completed 10 of 23 passes for 63 yards and added 21 rushing yards on five carries before being replaced by Nick Mullens in the fourth quarter of Sunday's 3-0 win over the Raiders.
It was the lowest-scoring game in the NFL since 2007, and Mullens led Minnesota to the only scoring drive on his second possession after taking over, taking the Vikings 56 yards for their only trip into the red zone to set up a 36-yard Greg Joseph field goal. With Dobbs having posted poor numbers two games in a row, Mullens seems very likely to get his first start of the season in Week 15 against the Bengals.
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Vikings' Joshua Dobbs: QBs to Start
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It will take some guts to trust Dobbs after his last game in Week 12 against Chicago when he had four interceptions and scored just 6.5 Fantasy points. But as long as he remains the starter in Minnesota for Week 14 then I'm going to consider him a low-end starting Fantasy quarterback at Las Vegas. Keep in mind that prior to the disaster against the Bears, Dobbs had scored at least 26.9 Fantasy points in three of his previous four outings. And now the Vikings are getting Justin Jefferson (hamstring) back following a seven-game absence. The Raiders have been relatively stingy against opposing quarterbacks this year, but Tua Tagovailoa and Patrick Mahomes each scored at least 21.6 Fantasy points against Las Vegas in the past two games. Dobbs will hopefully get back to using his legs -- and start connecting with Jefferson -- in this matchup.
Minnesota head coach Kevin O'Connell said after Monday's 12-10 loss to the Bears that he'll evaluate Dobbs' four-game performance at quarterback before naming a starter following the Vikings' Week 13 bye, Ben Goessling of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.
O'Connell mentioned that he debated putting Nick Mullens into Monday's game after Dobbs struggled and threw four interceptions, so the Vikings could be serious about considering a quarterback change. Dobbs would still likely be the favorite to start over Mullens or Jaren Hall, but it doesn't sound like a given. Since being acquired from the Cardinals on Oct. 31, Dobbs has started in three of his four appearances and has completed 66.4 percent of his passes for 6.5 yards per attempt, five touchdowns and five interceptions while adding 142 yards and three scores on the ground and fumbling six times (losing three).
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Vikings' Joshua Dobbs: Done in by turnovers Monday
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Dobbs completed 22 of 32 passes for 185 yards with one touchdown and four interceptions in the Vikings' 12-10 loss to the Bears on Monday night. He also rushed twice for 11 yards.
Dobbs ultimately cobbled together a decent completion rate, but he averaged just 5.8 yards per attempt and constantly short-circuited drives with his interceptions. Improbably, only one of Dobbs' four picks led to any Bears points, and only a field goal at that. However, the first three came in Chicago territory, which was particularly costly in a game decided by two points. Dobbs did manage to pull the Vikings ahead just past the midway point of the fourth quarter with a 17-yard touchdown pass to T.J. Hockenson, but Justin Fields ultimately one-upped him by leading a game-winning drive. Dobbs takes a 13:10 TD:INT (4:5 in four games with Minnesota) into a Week 14 road matchup against the Raiders on Sunday, Dec. 10 following a Week 13 bye.
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Vikings' Joshua Dobbs: Solid in Week 11 loss
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Dobbs completed 20 of 32 passes for 221 yards with one touchdown and one interception and rushed eight times for 21 yards and another score in the Vikings' 21-20 loss to the Broncos on Sunday night. He also committed three fumbles, losing one and recovering the other two.
Dobbs turned in another serviceable performance from an overall production standpoint, but his ball security issues Sunday night stood out. The journeyman signal-caller's two turnovers led to Broncos field goals, and after leading the Vikings to three points on a marathon 14-play drive in the fourth quarter, Dobbs couldn't help Minnesota answer Denver's go-ahead touchdown, throwing four straight incompletions to close out his team's final possession. Nevertheless, Dobbs has job security and the possible return of Justin Jefferson (hamstring) on his side as he looks ahead to a Week 12 divisional home clash with the Bears on Monday night, Nov. 27.
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Vikings' Joshua Dobbs: Strong in first start with Vikings
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Dobbs completed 23 of 34 passes for 268 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions in Sunday's 27-19 win over the Saints. He added eight rushes for 44 yards and an additional score.
Dobbs began the game on fire and had 260 total yards to go with two scores in the first half. His first trip to the end zone came on the ground, as he ran in a score from seven yards away. He followed that up by running a perfect two-minute drill, which he capped by finding T.J. Hockenson for a 28-yard touchdown. The Vikings took their foot off the gas in the final two quarters and coasted to victory, but Dobbs has a positive outlook for the final half of the season -- particularly once Justin Jefferson (hamstring) can return.
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Vikings' Joshua Dobbs: Sleeper QBs
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Is there a better story in the NFL right now than Dobbs? He gets traded to Minnesota from Arizona last Tuesday, is forced into action on Sunday at Atlanta after Jaren Hall (concussion) gets hurt and leads the Vikings to a 31-28 comeback victory while scoring 28.9 Fantasy points. It's the fourth time this season he scored at least 27 Fantasy points, and he's helping you with his legs since he's run for at least 41 yards in six games this year and has a rushing touchdown in three games in a row. It's not an easy matchup against New Orleans, but I like Dobbs as a borderline No. 1 Fantasy quarterback in all leagues.
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Vikings' Joshua Dobbs: Week 10 Early Waiver Targets (Add/Drop)
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The degree of difficulty of what Dobbs did Sunday absolutely cannot be overstated. The Vikings traded for him Tuesday, with the hope that maybe he could be up to speed in time for Week 10's game against the Saints. Instead, with starter Jaren Hall going out with a concussion early Sunday against the Falcons, Dobbs was forced into action with teammates whose names he admittedly didn't know. And he looked pretty terrific, leading the Vikings to an unlikely victory while passing for two touchdowns and rushing for another. Dobbs wasn't a particularly useful Fantasy option with the Cardinals, and he probably won't be a must-start guy in Minnesota. However, he has much better weapons with the Vikings, and could get Justin Jefferson back in the next few weeks (he's eligible to come off IR in Week 10, though it doesn't necessarily seem likely). Dobbs' scrambling ability obviously plays up in Fantasy, and if he can just keep the offense on track, that might be enough to make him worth using against the right matchups, especially in 2QB leagues.
