{"id":1927541,"date":"2026-08-11T14:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927541"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:53:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:53:58","slug":"vikings-pick-murray-as-their-starting-qb-over-mccarthy-giving-him-the-rest-of-camp-to-get-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927541","title":{"rendered":"Vikings pick Murray as their starting QB over McCarthy, giving him the rest of camp to get ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAGAN, Minn. (AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Vikings have chosen Kyler Murray as their starting quarterback over J.J. McCarthy, the widely expected conclusion to what coach Kevin O&#8217;Connell pledged was a true competition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/a149a-vikings-pick-kyler-murray-as-their-starting-quarterback-over-j-j-mccarthy-ap-source-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAGAN, Minn. (AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Vikings have chosen Kyler Murray as their starting quarterback over J.J. McCarthy, the widely expected conclusion to what coach Kevin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1927542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1927541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927543,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927541\/revisions\/1927543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1927541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1927541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1927541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}