{"id":12726,"date":"2014-11-19T17:11:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T22:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12726"},"modified":"2014-11-19T17:11:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T22:11:54","slug":"vikings-claim-ben-tate-off-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/11\/19\/vikings-claim-ben-tate-off-waivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings claim Ben Tate off waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_12702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12702\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/bentate.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"404\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12702\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/bentate.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/bentate-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Vikings had been hoping to get running back Adrian Peterson back on the field this week, instead they will have to settle for waiver claim Ben Tate.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson&#8217;s NFL future is in question leaving the Vikings to move onto the recently waived Tate.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings do not seem ready to let Jerick McKinnon, who is dealing with a lower back injury, run with the ball leaving ample chances going forward for Tate to contribute to the team in short yardage situations.<\/p>\n<p>Tate looked about as bad as possible while with the Browns including minus nine yards on two carries in Sunday;s loss to the Texans.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings will be on the hook for the remaining $352,941 on Tate&#8217;s contract plus an additional $46,875 for each time he is on the gameday roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vikings had been hoping to get running back Adrian Peterson back on the field this week, instead they will have to settle for waiver claim Ben Tate. Peterson&#8217;s NFL future is in question leaving the Vikings to move onto the recently waived Tate. The Vikings do not seem ready to let Jerick McKinnon, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-12726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726","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=12726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12727,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726\/revisions\/12727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12726"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}