{"id":7362,"date":"2013-11-04T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bills-announce-manuel-has-been-cleared-to-return\/"},"modified":"2013-11-04T18:25:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T18:25:05","slug":"bills-announce-manuel-has-been-cleared-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bills-announce-manuel-has-been-cleared-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills announce Manuel has been cleared to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orchard Park, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Buffalo Bills announced Monday that rookie quarterback E.J. Manuel has been cleared to return from a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel has missed the last four games with an LCL sprain suffered on Oct. 3 against the Cleveland Browns. Jeff Tuel and Thad Lewis have each spent time at quarterback during Manuel&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis started three games before hurting his ribs in Week 8 against New Orleans. Tuel completed 18-of-39 passes for 229 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions in Sunday&#8217;s 23-13 loss to the undefeated Chiefs. Buffalo went 1-3 with Manuel sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>The 16th overall pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, Manuel has thrown for 985 yards, five touchdowns and thee interceptions in five games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel&#8217;s playing status will be determined by his performance in practice this week.<\/p>\n<p>Due to his return, Buffalo has released quarterback Matt Flynn, who spent just three weeks on the roster and did not appear in a game.<\/p>\n<p>The 3-6 Bills play the Steelers on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchard Park, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Buffalo Bills announced Monday that rookie quarterback E.J. Manuel has been cleared to return from a knee injury. Manuel has missed the last four games with an LCL sprain suffered on Oct. 3 against the Cleveland Browns. Jeff Tuel and Thad Lewis have each spent time at quarterback during [&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":[83,82,81],"class_list":["post-7362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-bills","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-bills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362","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=7362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7393,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362\/revisions\/7393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}