{"id":467643,"date":"2025-12-23T23:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/467643\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:28:11","slug":"j-j-mccarthy-to-miss-vikings-vs-lions-on-christmas-max-brosmer-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/467643\/","title":{"rendered":"J.J. McCarthy to Miss Vikings vs. Lions on Christmas; Max Brosmer to Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EAGAN, Minn. \u2014<\/strong> J.J. McCarthy will be sidelined for Minnesota&#8217;s Week 17 Christmas Day game against the Detroit Lions, Vikings Head Coach Kevin O&#8217;Connell announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connell said further imaging than an X-ray Sunday revealed a &#8220;very, very small hairline fracture that was discovered in McCarthy&#8217;s hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said McCarthy&#8217;s availability for the season finale against the Packers in Week 18 will continue to be evaluated.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy left Sunday&#8217;s win at the New York Giants late in the first half. His final snap of that game was a tunnel screen designed to get the ball to the perimeter.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connell said after the game that the first-year starter was struggling to grip the football. The result was a fumble, shown on slow-motion replay, before a massive hit by Brian Burns, who was unblocked on the right side of Minnesota&#8217;s formation by design of the play.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connell said there were &#8220;some potential candidates&#8221; of plays on which the injury occurred but McCarthy was &#8220;not entirely sure exactly when it was.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAGAN, Minn. \u2014 J.J. McCarthy will be sidelined for Minnesota&#8217;s Week 17 Christmas Day game against the Detroit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":467644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[211845,44207,105219,55091,55092,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-467643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-detroit-lions-at-minnesota-vikings-2025-reg-17","tag-j-j-mccarthy","tag-max-brosmer","tag-news-index","tag-news-team","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115771480840200146","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}