{"id":24163,"date":"2014-10-02T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bridgewater-ruled-out-vs-packers\/"},"modified":"2014-10-02T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T19:04:00","slug":"bridgewater-ruled-out-vs-packers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bridgewater-ruled-out-vs-packers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridgewater ruled out vs. Packers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Green Bay, WI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Minnesota Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater is inactive for Thursday&#8217;s NFC North tilt against the Green Bay Packers.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater, who suffered a sprained left ankle late in Sunday&#8217;s 41-28 win over Atlanta, returned to practice in a limited role on Wednesday, but the short week proved too much of a concern and the rookie will be held out of the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Ponder, the Vikings&#8217; 2013 starter at quarterback, will be under center in Bridgewater&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater took over the No. 1 job following veteran Matt Cassel&#8217;s season- ending broken foot in Minnesota&#8217;s Week 2 loss to New England. The former Louisville standout threw for 317 yards on 19-of-30 passing against the Falcons while adding his first career rushing touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Chandler Harnish was signed off of Minnesota&#8217;s practice squad earlier on Thursday and will serve as Ponder&#8217;s backup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Bay, WI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Minnesota Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater is inactive for Thursday&#8217;s NFC North tilt against the Green Bay Packers. Bridgewater, who suffered a sprained left ankle late in Sunday&#8217;s 41-28 win over Atlanta, returned to practice in a limited role on Wednesday, but the short week proved too much of a concern [&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":[72,71,73],"class_list":["post-24163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24163","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=24163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}