{"id":18637,"date":"2012-12-13T17:23:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T22:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18637"},"modified":"2012-12-13T17:23:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T22:23:04","slug":"steelers-suspend-rb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18637","title":{"rendered":"Steelers Suspend RB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH \u2014 When Pittsburgh Steelers coach <strong>Mike Tomlin<\/strong> demoted running back <strong>Rashard Mendenhall<\/strong> to third-string following a fumble in a loss to Cleveland last month, <strong>Tomlin<\/strong> stressed<strong> Mendenhall<\/strong> would have a chance to redeem himself.<\/p>\n<p>Not this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers suspended the mercurial <strong>Mendenhall<\/strong> for their game Sunday at Dallas for conduct detrimental to the team. Pittsburgh promoted running back Baron Batch from the practice squad to take <strong>Mendenhall\u2019s<\/strong> place.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension is the latest in a series of setbacks for the 25-year-old <strong>Mendenhall<\/strong>. He emerged as Pittsburgh\u2019s starter in 2009 and topped 1,000 yards in 2009 and 2010. He nearly reached the milestone again last winter but tore the ACL in his right knee in the regular-season finale against Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH \u2014 When Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin demoted running back Rashard Mendenhall to third-string following a fumble in a loss to Cleveland last month, Tomlin stressed Mendenhall would have a chance to redeem himself. Not this week. The Steelers suspended the mercurial Mendenhall for their game Sunday at Dallas for conduct detrimental to the [&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-18637","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\/18637","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=18637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}