{"id":465394,"date":"2023-10-10T13:26:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465394"},"modified":"2023-10-10T13:27:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:27:54","slug":"justin-jefferson-likely-to-be-sidelined-for-next-4-games","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/justin-jefferson-likely-to-be-sidelined-for-next-4-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Jefferson likely to be sidelined for next 4 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Jefferson is set to be place on the injured reserve list by the Minnesota Vikings, which is likely to rule out the wide receiver for the next 4 games, reports say.<\/p>\n<p>It is a potential hamstring injury, which Jefferson sustained during 27-20 loss to the Chiefs over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The wide receiver slipped on the U.S. Bank Stadium turf while trying to make a cut during a third-down pass in the Kansas area. As a result he limped off the pitch, holding his back and right leg during the 4th quarter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Vikings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Vikings<\/a> plan to place WR Justin Jefferson on injured reserve because of the hamstring injury he suffered in Sunday\u2019s loss to Kansas City, per sources.<\/p>\n<p>The exact timeline is TBD based on how he responds to treatment. But Jefferson is out at least four games. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hBAYZHZqlV\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hBAYZHZqlV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/1711700926828839390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Vikings&#8217; head-coach Kevin O&#8217;Connell was adamant that the team will take no risk with Jefferson and will give him as much time needed for the injury to heal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to have to, medically, make a good decision and help almost protect him from himself a little bit in a way, where we have to take care of him and get him back to 100%,\u201d O\u2019Connell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Jefferson is set to be place on the injured reserve list by the Minnesota Vikings, which is likely to rule out the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":465395,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21569,17167],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[21570,18175],"acf":{"announce":"The Minnesota man is dealing with hamstring injury","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465398,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465394\/revisions\/465398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465394"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465394"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}