{"id":26723,"date":"2014-12-04T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/texans-clowney-to-have-surgery-headed-to-ir\/"},"modified":"2014-12-04T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T17:03:00","slug":"texans-clowney-to-have-surgery-headed-to-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/texans-clowney-to-have-surgery-headed-to-ir\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans&#8217; Clowney to have surgery, headed to IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Houston Texans outside linebacker Jadeveon Clowney&#8217;s rookie season did not turn out as many expected.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 No. 1 overall draft pick will undergo surgery on his right knee and will be placed on season-ending injured reserve, the team announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Clowney tore his meniscus in the knee during the season opener against Washington, then underwent surgery and didn&#8217;t return to the field until Week 8 against Tennessee. The injury remained persistent, however, and the rookie wasn&#8217;t able to regain full health.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old, who many thought would be a perfect compliment alongside stud defensive end J.J. Watt, totaled just seven tackles in four games this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think highly of all these players here,&#8221; Texans coach Bill O&#8217;Brien said. &#8220;As it relates to JD, this guy&#8217;s been injured and it&#8217;s time to clean it up. This guy is a football player. He wants to play football, he wants to be good. He was disappointed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Brien also noted that the team would like the surgery done as soon as possible so the rehab process can begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Houston Texans outside linebacker Jadeveon Clowney&#8217;s rookie season did not turn out as many expected. The 2014 No. 1 overall draft pick will undergo surgery on his right knee and will be placed on season-ending injured reserve, the team announced on Thursday. Clowney tore his meniscus in the knee during the [&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":[43,151,152],"class_list":["post-26723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-houston","tag-houston-texans","tag-texans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723","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=26723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}