Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy will be ruled out for his third consecutive game on Sunday (October 5) due to a high ankle sprain, ESPN 's Kevin Seifert reports.
McCarthy was held out of practice on Friday (October 3) despite head coach Kevin O'Connell hoping he'd be able to participate in at least a portion of the session at the team's temporary facility outside London ahead of its game against the Cleveland Browns .
"He got through [the week] pretty well," O'Connell said of McCarthy. "Obviously with the weather today, my hope was to try to get him some work during individual [drills], but with the weather and the tight field space -- we're working on a 100-yard field -- we wanted to be smart with that. But very much looking forward to spending some time w