{"id":10682,"date":"2013-11-30T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/steelers-place-velasco-on-ir\/"},"modified":"2013-11-30T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T17:58:00","slug":"steelers-place-velasco-on-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/steelers-place-velasco-on-ir\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers place Velasco on IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Steelers placed center Fernando Velasco on injured reserve Saturday due to an Achilles injury.<\/p>\n<p>Velasco was signed by the Steelers on Sept. 9 after starting center Maurkice Pouncey tore the MCL and ACL in his right knee during Pittsburgh&#8217;s first game of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Velasco started the team&#8217;s next 11 games after Pouncey&#8217;s injury, but was injured during Pittsburgh&#8217;s Thanksgiving night loss at Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Saturday, the Steelers released cornerback DeMarcus Van Dyke and signed offensive tackle Rashad Butler and center Eric Olsen.<\/p>\n<p>Butler has played in 50 games with four career starts, while Olsen has played in 17 games with four starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Steelers placed center Fernando Velasco on injured reserve Saturday due to an Achilles injury. Velasco was signed by the Steelers on Sept. 9 after starting center Maurkice Pouncey tore the MCL and ACL in his right knee during Pittsburgh&#8217;s first game of the season. Velasco started the team&#8217;s next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[143,142,144],"class_list":["post-10682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}