{"id":25196,"date":"2014-10-31T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bengals-green-slated-to-return-bernard-out\/"},"modified":"2014-10-31T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T14:38:00","slug":"bengals-green-slated-to-return-bernard-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bengals-green-slated-to-return-bernard-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals&#8217; Green slated to return; Bernard out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cincinnati Bengals expect to have All-Pro receiver A.J. Green back from a three-game absence when the current AFC North leaders host the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Bengals listed Green as questionable on Friday&#8217;s final injury report, head coach Marvin Lewis said the three-time Pro Bowl selection is on track to return from a sprained toe that has hampered him for most of this season&#8217;s first half.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A.J. has looked fine,&#8221; Lewis said. &#8220;He wants to play. He&#8217;s telling everybody he wants to play. If everything stays the way it is, he&#8217;ll play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the Bengals should have their top wideout available for Sunday&#8217;s matchup, their leading rusher will not play against the Jaguars. Running back Giovani Bernard was formally ruled out on Friday due to a hip injury he sustained during last weekend&#8217;s 27-24 home win over division-rival Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Jeremy Hill will serve as Cincinnati&#8217;s lead back in place of Bernard, who has compiled 446 rushing yards and a team-high five touchdowns while adding 22 catches through the Bengals&#8217; seven games.<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati had already declared linebacker Vontaze Burfict, who underwent an arthroscopic procedure on his knee Wednesday, out for Week 9. Middle linebacker Rey Maualuga is likely to miss Sunday&#8217;s tilt as well due to a hamstring pull that has kept him out the previous two weeks. He was listed as doubtful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cincinnati Bengals expect to have All-Pro receiver A.J. Green back from a three-game absence when the current AFC North leaders host the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday. Though the Bengals listed Green as questionable on Friday&#8217;s final injury report, head coach Marvin Lewis said the three-time Pro Bowl selection is on [&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":[119,118,117],"class_list":["post-25196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-bengals","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25196","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=25196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}