{"id":148765,"date":"2025-09-11T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/148765\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:03:08","slug":"harrison-smith-expects-to-return-soon-from-personal-health-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/148765\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrison Smith expects to return soon from personal health issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harrison Smith is on the Vikings\u2019 active roster, but he did not play in the season opener because of a personal health issue. The safety practiced last Saturday for the first time since Aug. 11.<\/p>\n<p>He said he has made progress and expects to resume playing within three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, speaking for the first time since his issue began, would not elaborate on his health ordeal other than to say it\u2019s physical and not mental.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just trying to get my conditioning up,\u201d Smith said, via Kevin Seifert of ESPN. \u201cI\u2019m going to go out there and see how much I can handle and go from there. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46218328\/vikings-harrison-smith-confident-return-3-weeks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I\u2019ve already moved around<\/a>, and I\u2019m moving around well. It\u2019s just volume and conditioning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings did not place Smith on injured reserve, expecting him to return before the four-game minimum absence. He expects the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re kind of fluid with if I\u2019m ready to go or not, and if I am going to help the team or not,\u201d Smith said. \u201cThat all matters. But I expect to be back before [the four-week mark.]\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The six-time Pro Bowler has missed only eight games since the start of the 2017 season. He played 16 of 17 games last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harrison Smith is on the Vikings\u2019 active roster, but he did not play in the season opener because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-148765","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\/148765","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=148765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}