{"id":93581,"date":"2025-08-24T13:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T13:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93581\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T13:16:08","slug":"raiders-backup-qb-aidan-oconnell-breaks-wrist-expected-to-be-out-6-8-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93581\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders backup QB Aidan O&#8217;Connell breaks wrist, expected to be out 6-8 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GLENDALE, Ariz. \u2014 Las Vegas Raiders backup quarterback Aidan O&#8217;Connell fractured his right wrist during Saturday&#8217;s pre-season game against the Arizona Cardinals and is expected to be out for six to eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Pete Carroll confirmed the injury after the 20-10 loss to the Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe fractured his wrist \u2014 he&#8217;s hurt \u2014 it&#8217;s going to be a while,\u201d Carroll said. \u201cThat&#8217;s a big blow for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connell left the game in the second quarter and didn&#8217;t return. He completed 3 of 4 passes for 36 yards before the injury.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connell has started 17 games over the past two seasons, including seven games in 2024. He threw for 1,612 yards, eight touchdowns and four interceptions last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders played two other quarterbacks on Saturday \u2014 starter Geno Smith and rookie Cam Miller. Carroll said it&#8217;s too early to tell if Miller will be elevated to the No. 2 spot, adding that he needed to look at film to see how he performed.<\/p>\n<p>Miller finished 12 of 24 passing for 102 yards on Saturday. He was a sixth round pick out of North Dakota State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLENDALE, Ariz. \u2014 Las Vegas Raiders backup quarterback Aidan O&#8217;Connell fractured his right wrist during Saturday&#8217;s pre-season game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-93581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93581","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=93581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}