{"id":1929409,"date":"2026-08-24T16:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929409"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:43:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:43:55","slug":"report-philip-rivers-says-son-gunner-rivers-avoided-surgery-season-ending-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929409","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Philip Rivers says son Gunner Rivers avoided surgery, season-ending injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NC State fans held their collective breath when QB commit and son of Wolfpack legend Philip Rivers took a low blow to his knee that knocked him out of his ESPN-televised season opener. Gunner Rivers injury pic.twitter.com\/Uf8vjaRmEg \u2014 Wolfpack Stats (@ncstatestats) August 22, 2026 There was a lot of back-and-forth information-wise. First it was that [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/08\/24\/report-philip-rivers-says-son-gunner-rivers-avoided-surgery-season-ending-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State fans held their collective breath when QB commit and son of Wolfpack legend Philip Rivers took a low blow to his knee that knocked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1929410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929409","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\/1929409","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=1929409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929411,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929409\/revisions\/1929411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}