{"id":27887,"date":"2014-12-30T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/steelers-sign-tate-as-contingency-plan\/"},"modified":"2014-12-30T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T15:49:00","slug":"steelers-sign-tate-as-contingency-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/steelers-sign-tate-as-contingency-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers sign Tate as contingency plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Faced with the possibility of being without starting running back Le&#8217;Veon Bell for Saturday&#8217;s AFC wild card matchup with the Ravens, the Steelers added oft-traveled Ben Tate on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tate has already been cut twice this season after being signed by the Browns in the offseason. Cleveland waived him in mid-November, and the RB-needy Vikings quickly picked him up. After playing sparingly in three games, Tate was let go prior to Minnesota&#8217;s season finale.<\/p>\n<p>In 11 games this season, Tate rushed for 371 yards and four touchdowns on 119 carries.<\/p>\n<p>To make room on the roster, the Steelers released wide receiver Justin Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Faced with the possibility of being without starting running back Le&#8217;Veon Bell for Saturday&#8217;s AFC wild card matchup with the Ravens, the Steelers added oft-traveled Ben Tate on Tuesday. Tate has already been cut twice this season after being signed by the Browns in the offseason. Cleveland waived him in mid-November, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[180,143,179],"class_list":["post-27887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27887","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=27887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}