{"id":10107,"date":"2014-05-07T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T13:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10107"},"modified":"2014-05-07T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T13:02:48","slug":"concern-over-back-of-zach-mettenberger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/05\/07\/concern-over-back-of-zach-mettenberger\/","title":{"rendered":"Concern over back of Zach Mettenberger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9842\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/zachmettenberger.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9842\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/zachmettenberger.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/zachmettenberger-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/zachmettenberger-50x35.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nNFL Draft hopeful Zach Mettenberger has had several teams flag his back.<\/p>\n<p>Mettenberger has Spondylolysis which is a stress fracture in one of his vertebrae that makes up his spinal column. Right now the issue is not a concern but it could be something that requires surgery in the future.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23LSU&amp;src=hash\">#LSU<\/a> QB Zach Mettenberger&#39;s back was red-flagged by several teams prior to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23NFLDraft&amp;src=hash\">#NFLDraft<\/a>. He has Spondylolysis, treated non-surgically<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/statuses\/464003320214855680\">May 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Entering the NFL Draft, Mettenberger is coming off a torn ACL that ended his college career and just yesterday it was revealed that he produced a diluted urine sample at the NFL Combine.<\/p>\n<p>There is a good chance a team takes Mettenberger on the second day of the draft simply due to his arm strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL Draft hopeful Zach Mettenberger has had several teams flag his back. Mettenberger has Spondylolysis which is a stress fracture in one of his vertebrae that makes up his spinal column. Right now the issue is not a concern but it could be something that requires surgery in the future. Sources: #LSU QB Zach Mettenberger&#39;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[216,710],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-zach-mettenberger"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10108,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107\/revisions\/10108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10107"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}