{"id":11907,"date":"2013-12-23T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rams-ot-long-has-torn-acl-mcl\/"},"modified":"2013-12-24T08:10:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T08:10:44","slug":"rams-ot-long-has-torn-acl-mcl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rams-ot-long-has-torn-acl-mcl\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams OT Long has torn ACL, MCL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; St. Louis Rams head coach Jeff Fisher revealed on Monday that offensive tackle Jake Long tore both the anterior and medial collateral ligaments in his right knee during the team&#8217;s Week 16 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.<\/p>\n<p>The injury, which occurred on the Rams&#8217; opening series of Sunday&#8217;s 23-13 triumph over the Buccaneers, could place Long&#8217;s availability for the start of the 2014 season in question.<\/p>\n<p>A four-time Pro Bowl selection and the No. 1 overall pick of the 2008 NFL Draft, Long signed a four-year contract with the Rams in March after spending his first five seasons with the Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old started all 48 games over his first three professional campaigns, but has ended the last two on injured reserve due to a back problem and a torn biceps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; St. Louis Rams head coach Jeff Fisher revealed on Monday that offensive tackle Jake Long tore both the anterior and medial collateral ligaments in his right knee during the team&#8217;s Week 16 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The injury, which occurred on the Rams&#8217; opening series of Sunday&#8217;s 23-13 [&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":[139,98,138],"class_list":["post-11907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-rams","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-rams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907","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=11907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11920,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907\/revisions\/11920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}