{"id":7580,"date":"2013-11-07T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bills-qb-manuel-expected-to-start-sunday\/"},"modified":"2013-11-07T20:45:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:45:05","slug":"bills-qb-manuel-expected-to-start-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bills-qb-manuel-expected-to-start-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills QB Manuel expected to start Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orchard Park, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Buffalo Bills rookie quarterback EJ Manuel is expected to start Sunday when the team visits the Pittsburgh Steelers, head coach Doug Marrone confirmed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel had missed Buffalo&#8217;s last four games with a sprained LCL in his right knee, but returned to practice Wednesday and will start Sunday, barring any setbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel, the 16th overall pick in this year&#8217;s draft, completed 85-of-150 passes for 985 yards, five touchdowns and three interceptions over Buffalo&#8217;s first five games.<\/p>\n<p>Backup quarterback Thad Lewis started the next three games during Manuel&#8217;s absence, but missed the Bills&#8217; Week 9 loss to Kansas City with a rib injury.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis also returned to practice Wednesday and is expected to be the No. 2 quarterback on Sunday, while rookie Jeff Tuel, who started against the Chiefs, is unlikely to dress against the Steelers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchard Park, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Buffalo Bills rookie quarterback EJ Manuel is expected to start Sunday when the team visits the Pittsburgh Steelers, head coach Doug Marrone confirmed Thursday. Manuel had missed Buffalo&#8217;s last four games with a sprained LCL in his right knee, but returned to practice Wednesday and will start Sunday, barring any [&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-7580","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\/7580","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=7580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7583,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions\/7583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}