{"id":191058,"date":"2025-09-30T00:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191058\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:16:07","slug":"sources-vikings-rt-brian-oneill-has-sprained-mcl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191058\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Vikings RT Brian O’Neill has sprained MCL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sep 29, 2025, 07:30 PM ET<\/p>\n

Minnesota Vikings<\/a> right tackle Brian O’Neill<\/a> suffered a sprained MCL in his team’s loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> on Sunday in Dublin, sources told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.<\/p>\n

O’Neill, a two-time Pro Bowl selection, could miss time, putting the team’s patchwork offensive line in a more precarious position.<\/p>\n

Starting center Ryan Kelly<\/a> also departed Sunday’s game with a concussion, his second this season and at least the fifth of his NFL career.<\/p>\n

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The Vikings were already playing without left guard Donovan Jackson<\/a>, who had surgery last week on his left wrist. In the process, the Steelers sacked Vikings quarterback Carson Wentz<\/a> six times, hit him a total of 14 times and pressured him at a 32% rate. Two of his passes were batted at the line of scrimmage and intercepted, and he also committed a key intentional grounding penalty under duress to derail the Vikings’ final possession in the 24-21<\/a> loss.<\/p>\n

Swing tackle Justin Skule<\/a>, who started the first two games of the season at left tackle while Christian Darrisaw<\/a> completed his recovery from a 2024 knee injury, replaced O’Neill on the right side Sunday while Michael Jurgens<\/a>, a seventh-round draft pick in 2024, replaced Kelly at center. Blake Brandel<\/a> played in place of Jackson.<\/p>\n

The Vikings (2-2) will play the Cleveland Browns<\/a> (1-3) in London this Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Kevin Seifert contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 29, 2025, 07:30 PM ET Minnesota Vikings right tackle Brian O’Neill suffered a sprained MCL in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-191058","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\/191058","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=191058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}