{"id":1928172,"date":"2026-08-16T12:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928172"},"modified":"2026-08-16T13:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:49:03","slug":"commanders-qb-marcus-mariota-has-a-sprained-mcl-in-his-right-knee-ap-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928172","title":{"rendered":"Commanders QB Marcus Mariota has a sprained MCL in his right knee, AP source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Commanders backup quarterback Marcus Mariota has a sprained medial collateral ligament in his right knee, a person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press. The 32-year-old is expected to miss time into the regular season as a result of the injury. It is not clear what th&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/b1e77-commanders-qb-marcus-mariota-has-a-sprained-mcl-in-his-right-knee-ap-source-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Commanders backup quarterback Marcus Mariota has a sprained medial collateral ligament in his right knee, a person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1928177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928172","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\/1928172","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=1928172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928173,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928172\/revisions\/1928173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}