WARE, England — The good news for the Minnesota Vikings is that right tackle Brian O'Neill avoided a serious knee injury after getting rolled up on in Sunday's 24-21 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The bad news for the Vikings is that O’Neill is still expected to miss some time after being diagnosed with a sprained medial collateral ligament.

Asked for details on the prognosis, head coach Kevin O’Connell expressed a little bit of relief, noting that he was initially fearing the worst when he saw O’Neill crumble to the grass on Sunday afternoon at Croke Park in Dublin.

“I would consider him week to week,” O’Connell said. “I don’t necessarily see short-term injured reserve as being a necessity at this point.”

If the Vikings were to put O’Neill on short-term injured reserve, he would be

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