{"id":93345,"date":"2025-08-24T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93345\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:46:07","slug":"raiders-qb-aidan-oconnell-suffered-fractured-wrist-in-preseason-finale-expected-to-be-out-6-8-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93345\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders QB Aidan O&#8217;Connell suffered fractured wrist in preseason finale, expected to be out 6-8 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/cam-miller\/\" title=\"Cam Miller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cam Miller<\/a>, who has been vying for a roster spot, finished the game from the second quarter on. His extended outing ended 12-of-24 passing for 102 yards, but a good chunk of those numbers came during the final drive in garbage time.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connell&#8217;s injury is a big blow for Las Vegas, especially with the regular season fast approaching. The third-year QB has plenty of starting experience and is thought to be a solid backup behind <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/geno-smith\/\" title=\"Geno Smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Geno Smith<\/a>, who was acquired via trade this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unlikely the Raiders will feel comfortable with a Miller filling that role and the club will only have a short amount of time finding a temporary replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/carson-wentz\/\" title=\"Carson Wentz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carson Wentz<\/a> is the most notable free-agent QB currently on the market but that could change in the coming days with teams needing to cut down to 53 players by Aug. 26. A trade could also be a viable option for Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders open the 2025 season in New England on <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/raiders-at-patriots-2025-reg-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday, Sept. 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rookie Cam Miller, who has been vying for a roster spot, finished the game from the second quarter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[3158,10949,49,48,1736,44,514,2208,82],"class_list":["post-93345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-aidan-oconnell","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93345","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=93345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}