{"id":254116,"date":"2022-08-12T23:01:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T04:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=254116"},"modified":"2022-08-12T23:01:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T04:01:13","slug":"kirk-cousin-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=254116","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Cousin tests positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>EAGAN, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins has tested positive for COVID-19 and won&#8217;t play in the team\u2019s first preseason game. Coach Kevin O\u2019Connell confirmed the diagnosis at practice. Cousins was absent for a second straight day after feeling ill and being sent home. Cousins has \u201cvery minimal\u201d symptoms, according to O\u2019Connell. Sean Mannion and Kellen Mond will split time in the exhibition Sunday at Las Vegas. Cousins was unlikely to play much if at all if he wasn\u2019t sick. There are no other quarterbacks on the roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAGAN, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins has tested positive for COVID-19 and won&#8217;t play in the team\u2019s first preseason game. Coach Kevin O\u2019Connell confirmed the diagnosis at practice. Cousins was absent for a second straight day after feeling ill and being sent home. Cousins has \u201cvery minimal\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254117,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254116\/revisions\/254117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}