{"id":6353,"date":"2013-10-15T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/steelers-place-brown-johnson-on-ir\/"},"modified":"2013-10-15T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T10:51:00","slug":"steelers-place-brown-johnson-on-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/steelers-place-brown-johnson-on-ir\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers place Brown, Johnson on IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Steelers placed offensive tackle Levi Brown and tight end\/fullback David Johnson on injured reserve Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, who has an injured triceps, did not appear in a game for the Steelers after being acquired from the Arizona Cardinals in a trade on Oct. 2.<\/p>\n<p>In his seventh season, Brown started Arizona&#8217;s first four games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, who has an injured wrist, appeared in all five games this season. He made two starts and had four catches for 70 yards.<\/p>\n<p>To fill the roster spots, the Steelers signed free agent tight end Richard Gordon and promoted cornerback Isaiah Green from the practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon, in his third season, appeared in 27 games for Oakland over his first two-plus seasons. He has only three career receptions, one for a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Green is a first-year player who has spent time on Pittsburgh&#8217;s active roster and practice squad this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Steelers placed offensive tackle Levi Brown and tight end\/fullback David Johnson on injured reserve Tuesday. Brown, who has an injured triceps, did not appear in a game for the Steelers after being acquired from the Arizona Cardinals in a trade on Oct. 2. In his seventh season, Brown started [&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-6353","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\/6353","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=6353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}