{"id":486289,"date":"2024-08-13T16:42:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486289"},"modified":"2024-08-13T16:42:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:42:27","slug":"vikings-rookie-quarterback-mccarthy-needs-a-knee-procedure","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/vikings-rookie-quarterback-mccarthy-needs-a-knee-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings rookie quarterback McCarthy needs a knee procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The status of J.J. McCarthy is in question after tests revealed the Minnesota Vikings rookie QB has a tear in the meniscus of his right knee, with an additional information to be provided once the quarterback undergoes a procedure in the upcoming days.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Vikings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Vikings<\/a> rookie first-round pick J.J. McCarthy has been diagnosed with a TORN MENISCUS &amp; will need surgery, according to head coach Kevin O\u2019Connell.<\/p>\n<p>Wow\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Just awful for Minnesota, who has been extremely impressed by McCarthy\u2019s development in camp <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8qjNKDdGV2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8qjNKDdGV2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MLFootball (@_MLFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_MLFootball\/status\/1823398155053871213?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Minnesota manager Kevin O&#8217;Connell revealed the injury today, claiming it happened during the past weekend\u2019s 24-23 preseason win against the Raiders. J.J. threw the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> of his 2 TD passes on his final possession and left only after he completed the 30 snaps the head coach planned for him to play.<\/p>\n<p>The rookie QB of the Vikings didn\u2019t share about any pain or soreness until reporting it yesterday to the medical staff.<\/p>\n<p>Medical staff will decide during the procedure whether J.J. needs a trim of the meniscus &#8212; which could allow him to return in the upcoming campaign \u2013 or a full repair that could sideline him until the next season.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota manager claimed that this would be a totally medical decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The status of J.J. McCarthy is in question after tests revealed the Minnesota Vikings rookie QB has a tear in the meniscus of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":486291,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17167,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[23299,18175,17873],"acf":{"announce":"Minnesota rookie QB needs knee surgery.","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\/486289"}],"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=486289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486292,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486289\/revisions\/486292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486289"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486289"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}