EAGAN, Minn. — After getting battered and bruised last week in primetime, veteran quarterback Carson Wentz won’t play again for the Vikings this season. He has officially been placed injured reserve and is set to have surgery on his left shoulder.

The lasting image of Wentz’s time with the Vikings will be him grimacing in pain on the sideline late in last Thursday’s game between the Vikings and Los Angeles Chargers. He had been playing through a significantly injured left shoulder while young quarterback J.J. McCarthy recovered from a high ankle sprain.

Asked last week if he thought about pulling Wentz from the game, head coach Kevin O’Connell went over the decision to keep him in.

“I asked him multiple times where he was at,” O’Connell said. “He said he was good and wanted to keep goin

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