EAGAN, Minn. \u2014 J.J. McCarthy will be sidelined for Minnesota’s Week 17 Christmas Day game against the Detroit Lions, Vikings Head Coach Kevin O’Connell announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n
O’Connell said further imaging than an X-ray Sunday revealed a “very, very small hairline fracture that was discovered in McCarthy’s hand.”<\/p>\n
He said McCarthy’s availability for the season finale against the Packers in Week 18 will continue to be evaluated.<\/p>\n
McCarthy left Sunday’s win at the New York Giants late in the first half. His final snap of that game was a tunnel screen designed to get the ball to the perimeter.<\/p>\n
O’Connell said after the game that the first-year starter was struggling to grip the football. The result was a fumble, shown on slow-motion replay, before a massive hit by Brian Burns, who was unblocked on the right side of Minnesota’s formation by design of the play.<\/p>\n
O’Connell said there were “some potential candidates” of plays on which the injury occurred but McCarthy was “not entirely sure exactly when it was.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAGAN, Minn. \u2014 J.J. McCarthy will be sidelined for Minnesota’s Week 17 Christmas Day game against the Detroit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[175915,6343,71421,22158,22159,99],"class_list":["post-367478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-detroit-lions-at-minnesota-vikings-2025-reg-17","tag-j-j-mccarthy","tag-max-brosmer","tag-news-index","tag-news-team","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367478","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=367478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}