{"id":1049948,"date":"2026-11-09T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1049948\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T09:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T09:00:39","slug":"j-j-mccarthy-plans-to-play-for-giants-on-short-week-after-hip-injury-feel-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1049948\/","title":{"rendered":"J.J. McCarthy plans to play for Giants on short week after hip injury: &#8216;Feel good&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014 It\u2019s not the best time for the Giants to have a short week of preparation before a Thursday night game.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback J.J. McCarthy limped through the final 16 minutes of Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/11\/08\/sports\/giants-get-big-win-over-eagles-after-j-j-mccarthy-injury-scare\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">win against the Eagles<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/11\/08\/sports\/j-j-mccarthy-exits-eagles-game-after-big-hit-in-giants-injury-worry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffering a hip injury<\/a> that sidelined him for most of the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41741894\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/quarterback-j-j-mccarthy-18-148042081_c8bc64.jpg\" alt=\"New York Giants quarterback J.J. McCarthy (18) leaves the medical tent during a game against the Philadelphia Eagles.\" class=\"wp-image-41741894\"\/>New York Giants quarterback J.J. McCarthy (18) leaves the medical tent during a game against the Philadelphia Eagles in Philadelphia, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026. Charles Wenzelberg\/NY Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel good,\u201d McCarthy said afterward. \u201cIt\u2019s a physical game, and a lot of guys are banged up, but we\u2019re going to do our best to make sure we turn over as fast as possible and do whatever we can between now and [Thursday] and make sure we\u2019re as close to 100 percent leading up to a great opponent against Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy was injury-plagued in two years with the Vikings, including missing his entire rookie season in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He ran out of the locker room to slap hands with his teammates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was my first time running full speed and trying to get it going,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants will have one full practice Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe weren\u2019t pushing him back out there,\u201d head coach John Harbaugh said. \u201cHe was able to play, but he insisted on playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 It\u2019s not the best time for the Giants to have a short week of preparation before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1049949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1519,1917,56,2321,2469,6,9],"class_list":["post-1049948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-giants","tag-football","tag-giants","tag-j-j-mccarthy","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkgiants","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117585669673709670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1049949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}