{"id":12217,"date":"2012-01-05T15:46:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T20:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12217"},"modified":"2012-01-05T15:46:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T20:46:27","slug":"steelers-rb-mendenhall-out-for-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12217","title":{"rendered":"Steelers RB Mendenhall  Out For Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH &#8211; The Pittsburgh Steelers\u2019 potentially long road through the AFC playoffs won\u2019t include running back <strong>Rashard Mendenhall<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mendenhall<\/strong> tore the ACL in his right knee in Sunday\u2019s 13-9 win in Cleveland and will require surgery, knocking him out of the postseason.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mendenhall<\/strong> sustained the injury late in the first quarter while getting tackled following a 5-yard gain. The team\u2019s leading rusher clutched the knee immediately and had to be helped off the field. He was on crutches following the game and coach <strong>Mike Tomlin<\/strong> indicated <strong>Mendenhall<\/strong> would at least miss this weekend\u2019s Wild Card game against Denver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH &#8211; The Pittsburgh Steelers\u2019 potentially long road through the AFC playoffs won\u2019t include running back Rashard Mendenhall. Mendenhall tore the ACL in his right knee in Sunday\u2019s 13-9 win in Cleveland and will require surgery, knocking him out of the postseason. Mendenhall sustained the injury late in the first quarter while getting tackled following [&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-12217","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\/12217","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=12217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}