{"id":892166,"date":"2026-10-23T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/892166\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:26:09","slug":"report-cole-kmet-likely-out-for-season-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/892166\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Cole Kmet likely out for season with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like one of Chicago\u2019s key offensive players will not be able to return this year. <\/p>\n<p>Per NFL Network\u2019s Ian Rapoport, tight end Cole Kmet is believed to have suffered a serious, likely season-ending knee injury during Thursday\u2019s victory over the Patriots. <\/p>\n<p>But Kmet is still undergoing tests and there is not currently finality on that diagnosis. <\/p>\n<p>Kmet went down was carted off the field during the fourth quarter of the matchup. He immediately grabbed his right knee after a play where he had caught a pass and was tackled low.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Ben Johnson told reporters postgame that the injury did not look good.<\/p>\n<p>In his seventh season, Kmet registered 10 catches for 87 yards with one touchdown in seven games with three starts in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It looks like one of Chicago\u2019s key offensive players will not be able to return this year. Per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-892166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892166","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=892166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}