{"id":158096,"date":"2025-09-21T04:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T04:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158096\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T04:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T04:44:13","slug":"christian-darrisaw-harrison-smith-to-play-vs-bengals-sources-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158096\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Darrisaw, Harrison Smith to play vs. Bengals, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"3db556c9-ed76-a7a5-4ccb-a92fc6db4334\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-vikings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> offensive tackle <a data-player-guid=\"22a580a1-2538-03b5-deba-1ac038b42328\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4361985\/christian-darrisaw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Darrisaw<\/a> (knee) and safety <a data-player-guid=\"db16d7bd-d012-85a3-9ab5-b49cb65b1445\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/14945\/harrison-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harrison Smith<\/a> (illness), both listed as questionable against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"75b8623b-8926-b411-0476-3d3602b78523\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/cin\/cincinnati-bengals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>, are expected to make their season debuts on Sunday, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46270097\/nfl-week-3-picks-predictions-schedule-fantasy-football-odds-injuries-stats-2025\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758429853_890_r1546101_2_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Defensive end <a data-player-guid=\"0178fa5f-003f-ee54-f7f6-a39070ccaf65\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3133487\/andrew-van-ginkel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Van Ginkel<\/a>, who is questionable with a concussion, is also expected to play, sources told Schefter.<\/p>\n<p>Smith practiced on Sept. 6 for the first time since a personal health issue sidelined him on Aug. 11, and he&#8217;s been working on his conditioning to be in game-ready shape.<\/p>\n<p>Darrisaw is coming back from a torn ACL and MCL in his left knee that he sustained last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Vikings offensive tackle Christian Darrisaw (knee) and safety Harrison Smith (illness), both listed as questionable against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-158096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158096","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=158096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}