  Minijets are ubiquitous in heavy-ion collision experiments. However, they are
often excluded from the hydrodynamic simulations of QGP as they do not
thermalize at short time scales and are not treated as part of the collective
medium. Using a concurrent jet+hydro framework, we show that the minijets could
account for a significant portion of particle multiplicity. Therefore, the
energy deposition from minijet-medium interactions can substantially modify the
QGP transport properties inferred from model-to-data comparisons.
