{"id":7368,"date":"2013-11-04T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bengals-place-atkins-on-ir\/"},"modified":"2013-11-04T22:05:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:05:04","slug":"bengals-place-atkins-on-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bengals-place-atkins-on-ir\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals place Atkins on IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cincinnati Bengals placed defensive tackle Geno Atkins on injured reserve Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Atkins tore the ACL in his right knee during the first half of Thursday&#8217;s overtime loss in Miami. He is the eighth Bengals player to go on IR this season, with all eight coming on the defensive side of the ball.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Georgia product had six sacks and 20 tackles in nine games this season after leading all interior lineman last season with 12 1\/2 sacks while earning his second Pro Bowl selection.<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati had planned to sign ex-Raiders defensive tackle Christo Bilukidi to take Atkins&#8217; roster spot, but the native Canadian does not currently have a valid permit to work in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Bilukidi, 23, registered one sack and five tackles in five games with the Raiders this season before being released on Oct. 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cincinnati Bengals placed defensive tackle Geno Atkins on injured reserve Monday. Atkins tore the ACL in his right knee during the first half of Thursday&#8217;s overtime loss in Miami. He is the eighth Bengals player to go on IR this season, with all eight coming on the defensive side of [&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":[119,118,117],"class_list":["post-7368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-bengals","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368","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=7368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7417,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions\/7417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}