QB J.J. McCarthy suffers right hand injury: Minnesota Vikings
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McCarthy appeared to have suffered the injury after getting strip-sacked by Brian Burns with less than a minute remaining in the first half. Tyler Nubin took McCarthy’s fumble to the house to get New York back in the game.
The Vikings QB headed to the locker room as the Giants regained possession and was ruled out when the third quarter began. He scored Minnesota’s only TD of the game so far on a 12-yard run.
Max Brosmer takes over for the Vikings while holding a 13-10 lead.
The Vikings need to know whether McCarthy, their 2024 first-round draft pick, is their franchise quarterback of the future. But the reality is he hasn’t played enough, and hasn’t played well enough when healthy, to give the Vikings any confidence that they can build around him going forward.
Undrafted rookie Max Brosmer is now in at quarterback for the Vikings.
Vikings center Ryan Kelly has also been ruled out with a concussion. That’s alarming because of Kelly’s history; this is the sixth diagnosed concussion of his NFL career.
