{"id":486712,"date":"2024-09-23T16:35:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T20:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486712"},"modified":"2024-09-23T16:35:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T20:35:19","slug":"vikings-quarterback-darnold-has-no-structural-damage-to-knee","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/vikings-quarterback-darnold-has-no-structural-damage-to-knee\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings quarterback Darnold has no structural damage to knee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings can feel lucky today because QB Sam Darnold&#8217;s left knee is not seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>Tests showed a bruise but no structural damage, manager Kevin O&#8217;Connell shared, and Darnold is not expected to miss much if any, time in preparation for the organization\u2019s Week 4 game against the Packers in Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a little sore,&#8221; the Vikings manager revealed, &#8220;but hoping Darnold can have a normal week of preparation in the upcoming days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Vikings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Vikings<\/a> QB Sam Darnold\u2019s MRI revealed a knee bruise and no structural damage, per source. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CdWuEuNlwR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CdWuEuNlwR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/1838274908637261836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sam has been 1 of the biggest surprises of the league\u2019s campaign, throwing an NFL-high 8 TD passes in leading Minnesota to a 3-0 beginning. Competing for the 4<sup>th<\/sup> franchise of his 7-year career, he ranks 5<sup>th<\/sup> in the league in Total QBR (73.1).<\/p>\n<p>The problem happened with almost 4 minutes until the end of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> quarter of the past weekend\u2019s 34-7 win against the Texans. Dropping back for a 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-down pass, Sam absorbed a low hit from Houston DE Danielle Hunter and felt bad. The defensive end was penalized 15 yards for a low hit to the QB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings can feel lucky today because QB Sam Darnold&#8217;s left knee is not seriously injured. Tests showed a bruise but no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":486713,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17167,17324],"news_category":[16703,16715],"gn_keywords":[18175,17873,23333],"acf":{"announce":"Minnesota QB didn\u2019t sustain structural damage to the knee.","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\/486712"}],"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=486712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486714,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486712\/revisions\/486714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486712"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486712"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}