{"id":129850,"date":"2025-09-03T14:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/129850\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:06:07","slug":"sources-jets-alijah-vera-tucker-has-significant-arm-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/129850\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources &#8211; Jets&#8217; Alijah Vera-Tucker has significant arm injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"732d3caf-b350-1e34-48c6-b7cebb4a0d88\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/nyj\/new-york-jets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Jets<\/a> starting guard <a data-player-guid=\"37f6451b-c281-8193-d7e9-c0dc0395a2d8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4259646\/alijah-vera-tucker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alijah Vera-Tucker<\/a> has a significant arm injury, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter.<\/p>\n<p>Vera-Tucker is receiving a second medical opinion on the injury but could ultimately need surgery, sources told Schefter, jeopardizing his ability to play this season.<\/p>\n<p>Vera-Tucker, 26, was a first-round draft selection in 2021 and is entering the final year of his contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets are counting on the 308-pound Vera-Tucker, who recently was voted as a team captain, to help anchor their offensive line and pave the way for their run-oriented attack this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Jets starting guard Alijah Vera-Tucker has a significant arm injury, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter. Vera-Tucker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-129850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}