{"id":370438,"date":"2026-10-11T16:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T16:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370438\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T16:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T16:48:20","slug":"giants-commanders-week-5-inactives-j-j-mccarthy-will-be-qb2-for-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370438\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants-Commanders Week 5 inactives: J.J. McCarthy will be QB2 for New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">J.J. McCarthy will be the backup quarterback for the New York Giants on Sunday against the Washington Commanders, less than two weeks after the Giants acquired him from the Minnesota Vikings. Jake Haener will be the emergency third quarterback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">McCarthy being QB2 means we could see him in certain packages on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Running back Devin Singletary will be inactive for a third straight week for the Giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Commanders get quarterback Jayden Daniels and wide receiver Terry McLaurin back from injury. They will, though, be without wide receiver Stefon Diggs and a trio of safeties. Nick Cross, Percy Butler, and Tyler Owens will all miss the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J.J. McCarthy will be the backup quarterback for the New York Giants on Sunday against the Washington Commanders,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,9093,11,10],"class_list":["post-370438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants-roster","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}