{"id":21332,"date":"2014-07-25T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-colts-rb-ballard-tears-achilles\/"},"modified":"2014-07-25T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T19:23:00","slug":"report-colts-rb-ballard-tears-achilles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-colts-rb-ballard-tears-achilles\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Colts RB Ballard tears Achilles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Indianapolis Colts running back Vick Ballard was carted off the practice field Friday after reportedly tearing his left Achilles tendon.<\/p>\n<p>Ballard went down after catching a pass and was scheduled to have an MRI, according to the team&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN.com, citing a source, said Ballard suffered a torn Achilles.<\/p>\n<p>The third-year back missed all but one game last season after suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. The non-contact injury occurred during practice when Ballard lost his footing on a running play.<\/p>\n<p>He carried the ball 13 times for 63 yards in a Week 1 win over Oakland after rushing for a team-high 814 yards and two touchdowns as a rookie in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Indianapolis Colts running back Vick Ballard was carted off the practice field Friday after reportedly tearing his left Achilles tendon. Ballard went down after catching a pass and was scheduled to have an MRI, according to the team&#8217;s website. ESPN.com, citing a source, said Ballard suffered a torn Achilles. The third-year back missed [&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":[155,154,153],"class_list":["post-21332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-colts","tag-indianapolis","tag-indianapolis-colts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332","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=21332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}