{"id":136932,"date":"2025-09-12T05:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136932\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T05:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:19:08","slug":"commanders-rb-austin-ekeler-believed-to-have-torn-achilles-will-undergo-mri-to-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136932\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanders RB Austin Ekeler believed to have torn Achilles, will undergo MRI to confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a disheartening defeat, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/austin-ekeler\/\" title=\"Austin Ekeler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Ekeler<\/a>&#8216;s season was likely lost as well.<\/p>\n<p>Ekeler is believed to have torn his Achilles in the Washington Commanders&#8217; <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/commanders-at-packers-2025-reg-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">27-18 loss<\/a> to the Green Bay Packers on Thursday night, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported.<\/p>\n<p>Ekeler, 30, will undergo an MRI to confirm the injury, but there isn&#8217;t an abundance of hope going into the imaging, Rapoport added. A torn Achilles would effectively end Ekeler&#8217;s 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>Down, 27-10, with less than four minutes to play, Ekeler was lined up in the slot, chipped a defender, settled briefly near the sideline and then turned to go upfield, but quickly crumpled to the field with a non-contact injury and grabbed the back of his right lower leg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid a disheartening defeat, Austin Ekeler&#8216;s season was likely lost as well. Ekeler is believed to have torn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[37242,64,27249,63,44,593,19976,11368,85,1272],"class_list":{"0":"post-136932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-austin-ekeler","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-no-minute","15":"tag-regular-season","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-washington-commanders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}