Keenum is finally ‘the guy’ at quarterback

His autobiography is to be released next month

Victory was in the cards for Case Keenum — but the play he wanted wasn’t. He couldn’t find the play card for the hook and ladder, one of a handful of strategies at the end of a playoff game against New Orleans last season. Ultimately, he ran a different play — a pristine throw to Stefon Diggs — and the “Minnesota Miracle” was born.

Keenum, now quarterback of the Denver Broncos, relives the Minnesota Vikings moment in vivid detail in “Playing for More,” his autobiography to be released September 4.

“I’m flipping through the playbook with my receivers, [Adam] Thielen and Stefon Diggs, looking at our special end-of-game options,” Keenum writes. “There’s a set of plays at the back of the book that we practice every three weeks or so. But I can’t find the one I’m looking for. ‘Where is that hook-andlateral? I know it’s in here. I just saw it!’ We’re all trying to come up with something, but there’s no perfect play for driving the length of the field in 25 seconds with only one timeout ...”

Now we know: There was a perfect play, one forever etched in the minds of millions of fans who witnessed it.

With 10 seconds remaining and the Vikings trailing by a point, Keenum threw a 27-yard strike to a leaping Diggs.

The receiver dodged a diving defender, spun upfield and ran untouched for a 61yard touchdown. It marked the first time in NFL history that a playoff game was decided by a touchdown on the final play of regulation.