Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy\u2019s status for Week 18 remains up in the air. <\/p>\n
McCarthy missed the team\u2019s Christmas win over the Lions with a hairline fracture to his left, non-throwing hand and head coach Kevin O\u2019Connell provided an update on his condition during a Monday press conference. <\/p>\n
O\u2019Connell said, via multiple reporters, that McCarthy is \u201cprogressing\u201d and that there\u2019s less swelling in the hand than there was leading into last Thursday\u2019s game. O\u2019Connell said that McCarthy\u2019s grip strength will be the determining factor in his ability to play against the Packers this week and that the team will have a better idea where he\u2019s at on that front later in the week. <\/p>\n
Max Brosmer made his second NFL start against Detroit. He went 9-of-16 for 51 yards and lost 48 yards on sacks, but the Vikings were able to pull out a 23-10 win after forcing six Lions turnovers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy\u2019s status for Week 18 remains up in the air. McCarthy missed the team\u2019s Christmas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-376848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376848","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=376848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}