{"id":35120,"date":"2025-09-16T16:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/vikings-sign-desmond-ridder-after-mccarthy-injury-carson-wentz-to-start\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T16:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:37:11","slug":"vikings-sign-desmond-ridder-after-mccarthy-injury-carson-wentz-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nfl\/vikings-sign-desmond-ridder-after-mccarthy-injury-carson-wentz-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings sign Desmond Ridder after McCarthy injury, Carson Wentz to start"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Vikings Secure Desmond Ridder as Third Quarterback<\/h2>\n<p>The Minnesota Vikings have reached an agreement with free agent quarterback Desmond Ridder, thus reinforcing their quarterback position with a third available option. This decision comes after the injury of J.J. McCarthy, who will miss several weeks due to a high right ankle sprain.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, McCarthy will be out of action for two to four weeks due to the injury suffered during Sunday&#8217;s game against the Atlanta Falcons, where the Vikings fell with a score of 22-6.<\/p>\n<p>Carson Wentz will be the Vikings&#8217; starter in the Week 3 game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Ridder joins Max Brosmer as backup options for Wentz.<\/p>\n<p>Until Tuesday, the Vikings hadn&#8217;t placed McCarthy on the injured reserve list.<\/p>\n<p>Ridder, who was previously in training camp with the Bengals, was released last month. The Bengals replaced Ridder with Brett Rypien, whom the Vikings had previously released.<\/p>\n<p>Rypien will be the backup to Jake Browning, the Bengals&#8217; starter, who is replacing the injured Joe Burrow.<\/p>\n<p>Desmond Ridder, 26, started 17 games with the Atlanta Falcons during the 2022 and 2023 seasons, and played one game with the Raiders last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vikings Secure Desmond Ridder as Third Quarterback The Minnesota Vikings have reached an agreement with free agent quarterback Desmond Ridder, thus reinforcing their quarterback position with a third available option. This decision comes after the injury of J.J. McCarthy, who will miss several weeks due to a high right ankle sprain. According to reports, McCarthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[8820,8821,55,3155],"class_list":{"0":"post-35120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-desmond-ridder","9":"tag-jj-mccarthy","10":"tag-quarterback","11":"tag-vikings"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}