{"id":24728,"date":"2014-10-20T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/redskins-lb-orakpo-done-for-year-with-torn-pec\/"},"modified":"2014-10-20T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T15:21:00","slug":"redskins-lb-orakpo-done-for-year-with-torn-pec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/redskins-lb-orakpo-done-for-year-with-torn-pec\/","title":{"rendered":"Redskins LB Orakpo done for year with torn pec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashburn, VA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Redskins announced on Monday that linebacker Brian Orakpo will be lost for the remainder of the season with a torn pectoral muscle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s gonna have surgery and he is out for the season. It&#8217;s a blow. He&#8217;s been playing very good against the run and disruptive in the passing game.&#8221; said Washington head coach Jay Gruden.<\/p>\n<p>Orakpo left Sunday&#8217;s 19-17 win over the Tennessee Titans in the fourth quarter and did not return with a right pectoral injury. He underwent an MRI earlier in the day which confirmed the extent of the damage.<\/p>\n<p>Orakpo&#8217;s 2012 season was also cut short due to injury, that one a left pectoral tear suffered early in the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Gruden said rookie Stanford product Trent Murphy will step up into the starting role.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trent&#8217;s gotta step up his game. He&#8217;s gotta be better at the point of attack. He&#8217;s going to have to grow up very fast,&#8221; Gruden added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashburn, VA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Redskins announced on Monday that linebacker Brian Orakpo will be lost for the remainder of the season with a torn pectoral muscle. &#8220;He&#8217;s gonna have surgery and he is out for the season. It&#8217;s a blow. He&#8217;s been playing very good against the run and disruptive in the passing [&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-24728","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\/24728","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=24728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}