{"id":495839,"date":"2025-10-07T12:24:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495839"},"modified":"2025-10-07T12:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:24:49","slug":"oklahoma-quarterback-mateer-is-pushing-to-return-against-texans","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/oklahoma-quarterback-mateer-is-pushing-to-return-against-texans\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma quarterback Mateer is pushing to return against Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma QB John Mateer is pushing to return for this weekend\u2019s match vs. Texas.<\/p>\n<p>There is optimism that John will make his return less than a month after the hand procedure, as the quarterback reacted positively to the intervention. It is unclear when a decision will be made on whether Mateer will be cleared to play as his team\u2019s manager, Brent Venables, has revealed publicly when he would be able to return.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">John Mateer is vying to return to the field this week against Texas, a return is very possible:<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shin might have worked a miracle<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteThamel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@PeteThamel<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0SKaEy447x\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0SKaEy447x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Unnecessary Roughness (@UnnecRoughness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnnecRoughness\/status\/1975578176693952515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>John is recovering from a procedure on a broken bone in his right hand that took place 2 weeks ago. Oklahoma quarterback being on the field vs. Texas in Saturday&#8217;s Allstate Red River Rivalry would dovetail with the most optimistic schedule, as he would be 17 days out of procedure.<\/p>\n<p>He sustained his problem in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> quarter of Oklahoma\u2019s 24-17 victory vs. Auburn on September 20<sup>th<\/sup>. However, he remained in the match and ended the game with 24-of-36 for 271 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma QB John Mateer is pushing to return for this weekend\u2019s match vs. Texas. There is optimism that John will make his return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":495840,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[26862,26861],"news_category":[16705],"gn_keywords":[26864,26863],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"OU\u2019s QB wants to be on the field vs. the Texans.","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\/495839"}],"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=495839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495841,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495839\/revisions\/495841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495839"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495839"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}