{"id":23297,"date":"2014-09-09T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/redskins-cofield-lands-on-short-term-ir\/"},"modified":"2014-09-09T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T17:43:00","slug":"redskins-cofield-lands-on-short-term-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/redskins-cofield-lands-on-short-term-ir\/","title":{"rendered":"Redskins&#8217; Cofield lands on short-term IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashburn, VA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Redskins placed nose tackle Barry Cofield on injured reserve with a designation to return on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cofield suffered a high ankle sprain in Sunday&#8217;s 17-6 season-opening loss to the Houston Texans. He will be eligible to return for the Redskins&#8217; Week 11 game against Tampa Bay on Nov. 16.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old has started 81 straight games, the longest active streak among defensive tackles in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Cofield has registered 304 tackles and 18 1\/2 sacks in 128 overall games spanning nine seasons with Washington and the New York Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is now down two nose tackles after backup Chris Neild suffered a season-ending knee injury in the team&#8217;s preseason finale.<\/p>\n<p>Safety Akeem Davis was signed off the practice squad to fill the available roster spot.<\/p>\n<p>In other moves, the Redskins addressed their practice squad by signing wide receiver Marvin McNutt, tight end Je&#8217;Ron Hamm and defensive lineman Derrick Hopkins, while releasing wide receiver Nick Williams and cornerback Richard Crawford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashburn, VA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Redskins placed nose tackle Barry Cofield on injured reserve with a designation to return on Tuesday. Cofield suffered a high ankle sprain in Sunday&#8217;s 17-6 season-opening loss to the Houston Texans. He will be eligible to return for the Redskins&#8217; Week 11 game against Tampa Bay on Nov. 16. [&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":[96,95,94],"class_list":["post-23297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-redskins","tag-washington","tag-washington-redskins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23297","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=23297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}