{"id":25646,"date":"2014-11-11T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/redskins-take-cofield-off-short-term-ir\/"},"modified":"2014-11-11T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T16:56:00","slug":"redskins-take-cofield-off-short-term-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/redskins-take-cofield-off-short-term-ir\/","title":{"rendered":"Redskins take Cofield off short-term IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashburn, VA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Redskins will have starting nose tackle Barry Cofield back on the field this weekend after activating him from injured reserve\/designated to return on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cofield has been sidelined with a high ankle sprain he sustained in Washington&#8217;s season opener against Houston on Sept. 7 and was first eligible to return to the active roster this week.<\/p>\n<p>Redskins head coach Jay Gruden said on Tuesday that Cofield is expected to play in Sunday&#8217;s game against Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Cofield has started 81 consecutive games, the longest active streak among defensive tackles. Of that total, 49 of them have come since signing with the Redskins in 2011 following a five-year stint with the NFC East rival New York Giants.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old recorded 32 tackles and 2 1\/2 sacks last season.<\/p>\n<p>To make room for Cofield on the 53-man roster, Washington waived rookie outside linebacker Jackson Jeffcoat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashburn, VA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Redskins will have starting nose tackle Barry Cofield back on the field this weekend after activating him from injured reserve\/designated to return on Tuesday. Cofield has been sidelined with a high ankle sprain he sustained in Washington&#8217;s season opener against Houston on Sept. 7 and was first eligible to [&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-25646","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\/25646","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=25646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}