{"id":10982,"date":"2011-10-27T15:20:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10982"},"modified":"2011-10-27T13:40:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T17:40:29","slug":"bucs-graham-goes-on-ir-with-torn-achilles-tendon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10982","title":{"rendered":"Bucs&#8217; Graham Goes On IR With Torn Achilles&#8217; Tendon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Buccaneers officially announced that tailback <strong>Earnest Graham<\/strong> has been placed on injured reserve, ending his 2011 season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graham<\/strong>, viewed by his teammates as a leader, played in all seven games this season and started in the last two. He injured his knee in the first quarter of the game against the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graham<\/strong> recorded 37 rushes for 206 yards and also had 26 receptions for 163 yards.<\/p>\n<p>With starter <strong>LeGarrett Blount<\/strong> still on the mend with a knee injury, the Bucs are left with <strong>Kregg Lumpkin<\/strong> as their only healthy tailback.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors have surfaced that <strong>Tiki Barber<\/strong> was being considered, but those rumors were not confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucs also announced they waived long snapper <strong>Christian Yount<\/strong>. <strong>Yount<\/strong> signed with the Bucs July 27th and played in the first seven games this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucs hope their bye week will give several players a chance to heal and be ready for their trip to New Orleans to face the Saints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Buccaneers officially announced that tailback Earnest Graham has been placed on injured reserve, ending his 2011 season. Graham, viewed by his teammates as a leader, played in all seven games this season and started in the last two. He injured his knee in the first quarter of the game against the Chicago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}