{"id":468522,"date":"2023-11-06T17:10:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T21:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=468522"},"modified":"2023-11-06T17:10:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T21:10:35","slug":"cam-akers-out-for-rest-of-the-season-with-achilles-tendon-rupture","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cam-akers-out-for-rest-of-the-season-with-achilles-tendon-rupture\/","title":{"rendered":"Cam Akers out for rest of the season with Achilles tendon rupture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cam Akers from the Minnesota Vikings has been ruled out for the remainder of the season with Achilles tendon rupture.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: Vikings RB Cam Akers is out for the season after tearing his Achilles on Sunday, head coach Kevin O&#39;Connell announced. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sxXDbP07ab\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/sxXDbP07ab<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1721594488550760858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Coach Kevin O&#8217;Connel confirmed the news on Monday in what is a major blow for Minnesota as their offensive line has been severely plagued by injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Akers sustained the injury during the Vikings win over Atlanta, where he had eight carries for 25 yards. He has appeared 6 times for Minnesota since his trade on September 20 and he has notched 138 yards on 38 attempts .<\/p>\n<p>Akers has remained second-choice behind Alexander Mattison, but his ambition has provided the position with energy and aspiration.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time he has ruptured his Achilles as the same issue occurred in 2021, when he made a miraculous comeback in less than six months to feature in the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cam Akers from the Minnesota Vikings has been ruled out for the remainder of the season with Achilles tendon rupture. Breaking: Vikings RB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":468523,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21472,17167],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[21473,18175],"acf":{"announce":"The Vikings' running back will not feature again this campaign","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\/468522"}],"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=468522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468524,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468522\/revisions\/468524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468522"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=468522"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=468522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}