{"id":284148,"date":"2025-08-13T06:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/284148\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T06:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:37:15","slug":"former-minnesota-vikings-rb-to-miss-season-following-neck-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/284148\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Minnesota Vikings RB to miss season following neck surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/minnesota-vikings\/347\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Minnesota Vikings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> running back Alexander Mattison <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/29138\/alexander-mattison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:joined;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">joined<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/miami-dolphins\/345\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Miami Dolphins;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Miami Dolphins<\/a> this offseason hoping to revive his NFL career in their run-friendly system.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, his season is ending before the regular season begins.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Mattison was injured in the fourth quarter of Sunday&#8217;s preseason matchup against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/chicago-bears\/326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago Bears<\/a>. He caught a pass from Quinn Ewers, ran upfield, and then was tackled, falling on his head.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Schefter reported that Mattison had surgery on his neck on Sunday after being taken by ambulance to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, it appears that Mattison was in good spirits following the surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Mattison spent the first five seasons of his career with the Vikings from 2019-23. In 2024, he joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/las-vegas-raiders\/341\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Las Vegas Raiders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a>, running for 420 yards and four touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Vikings Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/vikingswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/vikings\/2025\/08\/12\/former-vikings-rb-to-miss-season-following-neck-surgery\/85635723007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Former Vikings RB to miss season following neck surgery;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Former Vikings RB to miss season following neck surgery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Minnesota Vikings running back Alexander Mattison joined the Miami Dolphins this offseason hoping to revive his NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[4191,6619,391,7,393,251,233,259,2529,54433,6,1849,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-284148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-adam-schefter","9":"tag-alexander-mattison","10":"tag-chicago-bears","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","13":"tag-miami-dolphins","14":"tag-minnesota","15":"tag-minnesota-vikings","16":"tag-minnesotavikings","17":"tag-neck-surgery","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-quinn-ewers","20":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115020080454107330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284148","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=284148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}