{"id":10686,"date":"2014-07-01T23:50:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T03:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10686"},"modified":"2014-07-01T23:56:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T03:56:45","slug":"bills-linebacker-kiko-alonso-tears-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/07\/01\/bills-linebacker-kiko-alonso-tears-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills linebacker Kiko Alonso tears ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_10687\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10687\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/07\/kikoalonso.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10687\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/07\/kikoalonso.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/07\/kikoalonso-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/07\/kikoalonso-50x35.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nBuffalo Bills linebacker Kiko Alonso suffered a torn ACL while working out in Oregon and will likely miss the entire 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do not have the details at this point, but early indications are that it could be significant,&#8221; general manager Doug Whaley said in a statement Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Bills LB Kiko Alonso tore his ACL and is expected to miss season, per source. It\u2019s considered a seven- to nine-month recovery. Blow for BUF.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/statuses\/484151232911511552\">July 2, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alonso will need seven to nine months to recover from the ACL tear.<\/p>\n<p>It is a tough break for the Bills after Alonso was third in the NFL&#8217;s defensive rookie of the year voting last season. His 159 tackles was third most in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills will now be looking for options to fill the weak side of their defense, where Alonso was expected to shift to this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Bills linebacker Kiko Alonso suffered a torn ACL while working out in Oregon and will likely miss the entire 2014 season. &#8220;We do not have the details at this point, but early indications are that it could be significant,&#8221; general manager Doug Whaley said in a statement Tuesday evening. Bills LB Kiko Alonso tore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[131,426,777,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-buffalo-bills","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-kiko-alonso","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686","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=10686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10689,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686\/revisions\/10689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10686"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}