{"id":1929132,"date":"2026-08-22T17:04:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929132"},"modified":"2026-08-22T17:52:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:52:58","slug":"gunner-rivers-takes-nasty-hit-exits-espn-game-with-knee-injury-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929132","title":{"rendered":"Gunner Rivers Takes Nasty Hit, Exits ESPN Game with Knee Injury. Here\u2019s what we know."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Future NC State QB and St. Michael Catholic senior Gunner Rivers, the four-star NC State commit and son of head coach and former NFL star Philip Rivers, left Saturday\u2019s nationally televised season opener with a right knee injury. Playing on ESPN2 in Fairhope, Alabama, Rivers completed 3 of 4 passes for 81 yards and a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/08\/22\/gunner-rivers-knocked-out-of-espn-debut-with-knee-injury-heres-what-we-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future NC State QB and St. Michael Catholic senior Gunner Rivers, the four-star NC State commit and son of head coach and former NFL star Philip&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1929136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929132","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=1929132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929137,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929132\/revisions\/1929137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}