{"id":474331,"date":"2023-12-28T20:08:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T00:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474331"},"modified":"2023-12-28T20:08:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T00:08:29","slug":"minnesota-benches-qb-mullens-for-rookie-hall","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/minnesota-benches-qb-mullens-for-rookie-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota benches QB Mullens for rookie Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie Jaren Hall will be from the 1<sup>st<\/sup> minute on the field at the weekend\u2019s match of his team vs. the Green Bay Packers, manager Kevin O&#8217;Connell shared today, marking the franchise\u2019s 4<sup>th<\/sup> change in starters since Kirk Cousins tore his ACL in Week 8.<\/p>\n<p>Jaren will replace Nick Mullens, who went 0-2 while throwing for 714 yards and 4 TDs, along with 6 picks, in a controversial 2-match stint as the team\u2019s starting quarterback. The defeats pushed Minnesota to the edge of the NFC postseason picture, and they now have only a 20% chance of making it to the playoffs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Vikings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Vikings<\/a> are making another QB change: Jaren Hall will start Sunday night against Green Bay, per me and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RapSheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With playoff hopes on the line in a primetime rivalry game, Minnesota is giving the ball to the rookie from BYU. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8wR9pmrMXj\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8wR9pmrMXj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/1740440225678250204?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The rookie, a 5th-round selection at this year\u2019s NFL draft, was Cousins&#8217; reserve at the time that the starting QB suffered his season-ending problem. Hall made 1 start against the Atlanta Falcons but needed to leave the field in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> quarter after sustaining a concussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie Jaren Hall will be from the 1st minute on the field at the weekend\u2019s match of his team vs. the Green Bay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":474332,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17167,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[22463,18175,17873],"acf":{"announce":"The Vikings will start the rookie quarterback vs. the Packers.","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\/474331"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474335,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474331\/revisions\/474335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474331"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474331"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}