JJM Held Out of Practice
Vikings QB J.J. McCarthy sidelined by right knee soreness, coach Kevin O’Connell says
Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy’s progress might be paused for at least a little while after he emerged from Saturday’s preseason win over the Raiders with right knee soreness, head coach Kevin O’Connell said Monday evening.
Whether McCarthy, the first-round pick out of Michigan, can travel with the team on Tuesday to Cleveland for joint practices and Saturday’s preseason game remains to be seen. He did not participate in Monday night’s practice at TCO Stadium in Eagan.
“Out of precaution we’re going to continue an evaluation on him and get some more testing done,” O’Connell said. “Very important player, obviously, so want to make sure we’re smart about it before he participates. Making sure we have a good understanding of where he’s at.”
O’Connell said McCarthy “could have continued playing” in Saturday’s exhibition when he was pulled in the middle of the third quarter. He completed 11 of 17 passes for 188 yards, two touchdowns and one interception.
Players reported to TCO Performance Center later than normal on Monday with a night practice scheduled, so O’Connell said the team got a “late start” on diagnosing McCarthy’s issue.
“We’re trying to figure out maybe when it happened,” O’Connell said, “but he just came in with some kind of routine soreness that a lot of guys after their first preseason game sometimes come in with and it was something we wanted to be smart about.”
O’Connell was asked whether there’s any reason to believe McCarthy’s injury is more than “routine” soreness. “At this point, I really don’t,” he said.
McCarthy was going to get “a lot of work” in what is a big week for the team’s preparation. They’ll hold their only set of joint practices this summer on Wednesday and Thursday in Cleveland, followed by the second preseason game against the Browns on Saturday.
https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-vikings-rookie-qb-jj-mccarthy-knee-soreness-cleveland/601083439
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Poor Sam Darnold. I've been reading the fan practice last night was subdued and quiet because everyone wanted to see McCarthy and were worried about his knee, lol.
Viking Nation is all about JJM.
KOC is having an unscheduled news conference any minute. Oh boy.....bad news with McCarthy?
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“My suspicion is this is a small little flap tear”
⁃ Estimates J.J. McCarthy will only need a trim to repair his torn meniscus
⁃ Since McCarthy is a rookie, he thinks the Vikings could possibly wait until after their Week 6 BYE to activate him
J.J. McCarthy #Skol
— Jesse Morse, M.D. (@DrJesseMorse) August 13, 2024
Suffered a knee injury
After initially dealing with ‘knee soreness’ after getting an MRI the team diagnosed him with a torn meniscus.
Sometimes these are minor and players can play through them, unfortunately this is not the case here.
There are some… pic.twitter.com/AHIyRSe9H1
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One reason why J.J. McCarthy’s knee injury “might not be the worst thing for him” is that it will allow him to spend more time than he otherwise would have “mastering the verbiage” of Kevin O’Connell’s system and the play concepts, per
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Has anyone checked on Thor Nystrom this am?
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pattersaur wrote:
For sure. And after Bradford and Teddy, it's hard to blame anyone for being scared here. Seems like QBs all over the league get a knee injury and are ripe as rain the following year. Vikings QBs? Career killer smh.
MaroonBells wrote:
That's exactly it. My first reaction was this is nothing, not even worth responding to. Happens every week. If he's the starter in the regular season, it wouldn't even show up on the injury report.
But Vikings fans have earned every bit of their PTSD on injuries and I don't blame anyone for being a little nervous.
I came across this the other day by Doug Clawson:
"J.J. McCarthy is the 1st QB drafted in the 1st round in the common draft era (since 1967) to miss his entire rookie season due to injury."
J.J. McCarthy is the 1st QB drafted in the 1st round in the common draft era (since 1967) to miss his entire rookie season due to injury
— Doug Clawson (@doug_clawson) August 14, 2024
DeepFreeze05 wrote:
I came across this the other day by Doug Clawson:
"J.J. McCarthy is the 1st QB drafted in the 1st round in the common draft era (since 1967) to miss his entire rookie season due to injury."
J.J. McCarthy is the 1st QB drafted in the 1st round in the common draft era (since 1967) to miss his entire rookie season due to injury
— Doug Clawson (@doug_clawson) August 14, 2024Of course he was; only the frigging Vikings.
Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
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