{"id":27969,"date":"2015-01-01T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/steelers-bell-sits-out-practice\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:21:00","slug":"steelers-bell-sits-out-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/steelers-bell-sits-out-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers&#8217; Bell sits out practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le&#8217;Veon Bell sat out Thursday&#8217;s practice as he recovers from a right knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Bell hyperextended the knee in Sunday&#8217;s victory over the Cincinnati Bengals and has yet to participate in practice this week as the team prepares to host the Baltimore Ravens in a wild-card game Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Finishing the season as the NFL&#8217;s second-leading rusher with 1,361 yards, Bell suffered the injury in the third quarter after taking a helmet to the knee from Cincinnati safety Reggie Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers brought in running back Ben Tate on Tuesday for insurance. Tate spent time with both Cleveland and Minnesota this season.<\/p>\n<p>Linebacker James Harrison sat out practice with an illness, while quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and tight end Heath Miller returned to practice after getting Wednesday off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le&#8217;Veon Bell sat out Thursday&#8217;s practice as he recovers from a right knee injury. Bell hyperextended the knee in Sunday&#8217;s victory over the Cincinnati Bengals and has yet to participate in practice this week as the team prepares to host the Baltimore Ravens in a wild-card game [&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":[143,142,144],"class_list":["post-27969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27969","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=27969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}