{"id":26497,"date":"2014-11-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rams-long-comes-off-short-term-ir\/"},"modified":"2014-11-29T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T18:00:00","slug":"rams-long-comes-off-short-term-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rams-long-comes-off-short-term-ir\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams&#8217; Long comes off short-term IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St.Louis, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The St. Louis Rams will have defensive end Chris Long back on the field for Sunday&#8217;s game against the Oakland Raiders after activating the Pro Bowl pass rusher from injured reserve\/designated to return on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Long was placed on recallable IR in September after suffering an ankle injury that required surgery in the Rams&#8217; season opener against Minnesota. The four- time Pro Bowl selection has been practicing for the last three weeks, however, and is expected to be active for Sunday&#8217;s tilt.<\/p>\n<p>The 2008 No. 2 overall draft choice has racked up 33 sacks since 2011, including 8 1\/2 while starting all 16 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>Linebacker Marshall McFadden was waived to clear a spot for Long&#8217;s return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St.Louis, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The St. Louis Rams will have defensive end Chris Long back on the field for Sunday&#8217;s game against the Oakland Raiders after activating the Pro Bowl pass rusher from injured reserve\/designated to return on Saturday. Long was placed on recallable IR in September after suffering an ankle injury that required surgery [&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":[139,98,138],"class_list":["post-26497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-rams","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-rams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26497","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=26497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}