{"id":341263,"date":"2025-12-12T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/341263\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:46:09","slug":"raiders-qb-kenny-pickett-to-start-sunday-vs-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/341263\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders QB Kenny Pickett to start Sunday vs. Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Kenny Pickett time for the Las Vegas Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders quarterback will be making his first start of the season on Sunday against the team that he won a Super Bowl with, the Philadelphia Eagles, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Raiders\/status\/1999582768108568699\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Raiders\/status\/1999582768108568699\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Starting quarterback Geno Smith did not practice this week after suffering a right shoulder and hand injury against the Denver Broncos on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Pickett came into the game in relief of Smith in the third quarter, and completed eight of 11 passes for 97 yards and a touchdown. <\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old has played in just three games for the Raiders since being acquired from the Cleveland Browns in August.<\/p>\n<p>Pickett appeared in five games for the Eagles last season, including two post-season appearances during the Eagles&#8217; Super Bowl run. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Kenny Pickett time for the Las Vegas Raiders. The Raiders quarterback will be making his first start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-341263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}