Kyler Murray has carved out a spot in NFL history that no quarterback has ever touched before.
After the Minnesota Vikings beat the Indianapolis Colts in Week 7, the Vikings improved to 6-0 and stood alone as the league’s only unbeaten team. That result put Murray in a place no quarterback has reached in the Super Bowl era: the primary starting QB for the NFL’s last remaining undefeated team with two different franchises.
OptaSTATS put it plainly: "Nobody else in the Super Bowl era has been the primary starting QB for the NFL's last remaining unbeaten team with 2 different franchises."
Murray first did it in 2021, when he was under center for the Arizona Cardinals as the NFL’s last unbeaten team. Now, five years later, he’s done it again with the 2026 Vikings.
The path to that distinction opened up in a hurry. The San Francisco 49ers fell to the Atlanta Falcons in a major upset, sliding to 6-1. Later that night, the 5-0 Kansas City Chiefs suffered their first loss of the season against the Seattle Seahawks, doing so in a game where the offense never found much of a rhythm.
That left Minnesota by itself at the top of the unbeaten list, and with it came a piece of history that had never been recorded before.
There may still be questions around this Vikings team, and their 6-0 start may not tell the full story. But the record stands, and so does Murray’s place in it: he has now led two different teams to the NFL’s final unbeaten mark, something no quarterback had ever done before.
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