{"id":45743,"date":"2026-08-12T03:57:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nfl-new-york-jets-qwantez-stigger-taken-to-hospital-after-collapsing-in-practice\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T03:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:57:42","slug":"nfl-new-york-jets-qwantez-stigger-taken-to-hospital-after-collapsing-in-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nfl-new-york-jets-qwantez-stigger-taken-to-hospital-after-collapsing-in-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL: New York Jets&#8217; Qwan&#8217;tez Stigger taken to hospital after collapsing in practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several Jets players took a knee near the sidelines, while some formed a prayer circle as their team-mate was receiving medical attention. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was very sad, very emotional,&#8221; running back Breece Hall said. &#8220;You get on your knee and say a prayer for him and hope he&#8217;s OK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glenn also praised the Jets&#8217; medical staff for their handling of the situation and said he planned to visit Stiggers in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The practice reportedly featured multiple fights between the two sides, with Stiggers having his helmet thrown down the field during a scuffle with Buccaneers&#8217; Luke Goedeke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stiggers has 35 tackles, two fumble recoveries and three passes defended in 29 games for the New York outfit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Jets will host the Buccaneers in their NFL pre-season opener at MetLife Stadium, New Jersey on Friday (00:00 BST, Saturday). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport has contacted the New York Jets for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/cgq5kdp8e0eo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Jets players took a knee near the sidelines, while some formed a prayer circle as their team-mate was receiving medical attention. &#8220;It was very sad, very emotional,&#8221; running back Breece Hall said. &#8220;You get on your knee and say a prayer for him and hope he&#8217;s OK.&#8221; Glenn also praised the Jets&#8217; medical staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45745,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45743\/revisions\/45745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}