{"id":222539,"date":"2025-10-13T22:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/222539\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:26:10","slug":"kevin-oconnell-not-ready-to-announce-week-7-starter-at-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/222539\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin O&#8217;Connell not ready to announce Week 7 starter at QB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who will start at quarterback when the Vikings play the Eagles in Week 7? <\/p>\n<p>If head coach Kevin O\u2019Connell knows the answer, he\u2019s not yet telling the public. <\/p>\n<p>In his Monday press conference coming off a Week 6 bye, O\u2019Connell told reporters that he isn\u2019t ready to project where the team will be at the end of the week. Both J.J. McCarthy (ankle) and Carson Wentz (left shoulder) are still returning from injury. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery excited to get him <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aO3MikN8Nfs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">back officially practicing<\/a>,\u201d O\u2019Connell said of McCarthy. \u201cI don\u2019t necessarily want to put a percent age on where I Think he\u2019s at health-wise and I think this week will be massive for our whole team, but just to see J.J. back out there, getting reps, and working through the process of building that foundation back up. And we got off to a really good start last week, I was very fortunate to get that time with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Wentz is dealing with a left shoulder injury suffered during the win in London over the Browns, O\u2019Connell noted that Wentz will practice this week. While he was sore after the game, Wentz has progressed to a point where he can participate since the bye.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota\u2019s first participation report of the week will be released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who will start at quarterback when the Vikings play the Eagles in Week 7? If head coach Kevin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-222539","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\/222539","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=222539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}