{"id":27590,"date":"2014-12-22T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/clausen-diagnosed-with-concussion\/"},"modified":"2014-12-22T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T15:20:00","slug":"clausen-diagnosed-with-concussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/clausen-diagnosed-with-concussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Clausen diagnosed with concussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Forest, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Chicago Bears quarterback Jimmy Clausen was diagnosed with a concussion after experiencing delayed symptoms on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Clausen has already been ruled out for this weekend&#8217;s season finale against Minnesota. Jay Cutler will be back as the starter, Bears coach Marc Trestman said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Clausen suffered the concussion on Chicago&#8217;s final offensive possession when Lions defensive end Ezekiel Ansah made helmet-to-helmet contact with him as the quarterback slid at the end of a short scramble.<\/p>\n<p>Ansah was whistled for an unnecessary roughness penalty on the play.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears said Clausen didn&#8217;t exhibit symptoms after the hit or following the game.<\/p>\n<p>He contacted trainers after experiencing delayed symptoms later Sunday night and was taken to a hospital, where he was diagnosed with a concussion.<\/p>\n<p>Trestman made the controversial decision last week to start Clausen over Cutler.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears (5-10) have lost four games in a row and will miss the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Forest, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Chicago Bears quarterback Jimmy Clausen was diagnosed with a concussion after experiencing delayed symptoms on Sunday night. Clausen has already been ruled out for this weekend&#8217;s season finale against Minnesota. Jay Cutler will be back as the starter, Bears coach Marc Trestman said Monday. Clausen suffered the concussion on Chicago&#8217;s [&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":[157,30,156],"class_list":["post-27590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-bears","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27590","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=27590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}