earlier in the week<\/a>, there\u2019s a pretty good chance that the Packers will be resting a lot of key players in this one since they can\u2019t improve their seeing in the NFC playoff race and need to prepare for a trip to either Chicago or Philadelphia on Wild Card Weekend. If neither Love nor Willis takes the field, the Packers could turn to Clayton \u201cName That\u201d Tune to start at quarterback on Sunday. Niemann is returning from IR and John Williams is coming back from the PUP list, so the Packers might activate one or both of them to give them some work before the playoffs, but I wouldn\u2019t expect any of the really important names on this list to suit up for the Packers on Sunday.<\/p>\nEveryone will be keeping an eye on McCarthy, obviously. At the Vikings\u2019 press conference on Wednesday, McCarthy said he felt like the ball was \u201cspinning\u201d in practice, but that they were taking things day by day. (Aren\u2019t we all, J.J.?) I think if the Vikings can get McCarthy out there on Sunday, they\u2019re going to, just to get him some more reps. Hey, why not, right? We\u2019ll see if the team gives Bartholomew an opportunity to suit up for a game after missing the entire season to this point. The team also signed former Raiders running back Sincere McCormick to the practice squad earlier in the day. Hardcastle was unavailable for comment.<\/p>\n
Those are your first injury reports of the week, folks. We\u2019ll keep an eye on things here and see how these progress over the next couple of days leading up to the regular season finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final game of the 2025 regular season for our Minnesota Vikings is officially within sight, as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[7,233,259,52778,1312,2529,6,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-644813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-vikings","11":"tag-minnesota-vikings-2025-season","12":"tag-minnesota-vikings-news","13":"tag-minnesotavikings","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115818175326501534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644813","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=644813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}