{"id":11005,"date":"2014-08-19T13:43:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T17:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11005"},"modified":"2014-08-19T13:43:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T17:43:52","slug":"montee-ball-returns-to-broncos-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/08\/19\/montee-ball-returns-to-broncos-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Montee Ball returns to Broncos practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/monteeball.jpg\" alt=\"monteeball\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11006\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/monteeball.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/monteeball-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nMontee Ball returned to practice Tuesday for the Denver Broncos.<\/p>\n<p>Ball has been out since undergoing an appendectomy. The Broncos are having non-contact drills on Tuesday and are not expected to have Ball play in their third preseason game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Montee ball back in practice for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Broncos?src=hash\">#Broncos<\/a>&#8230;stretching with team<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Legwold (@Jeff_Legwold) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jeff_Legwold\/statuses\/501777171883769856\">August 19, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The expectation is that Ball will be ready once the regular season kicks off against Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Ball accumulated 558 yards on 119 rushes (4.7 avg) last season for four touchdowns. He added 20 catches for 145 yards. He should be the bellcow of the Broncos backfield but has Ronnie Hillman and C.J. Anderson behind him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montee Ball returned to practice Tuesday for the Denver Broncos. Ball has been out since undergoing an appendectomy. The Broncos are having non-contact drills on Tuesday and are not expected to have Ball play in their third preseason game. Montee ball back in practice for #Broncos&#8230;stretching with team &mdash; Jeff Legwold (@Jeff_Legwold) August 19, 2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-11005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005","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=11005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11007,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005\/revisions\/11007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11005"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}