{"id":12792,"date":"2014-11-23T11:41:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T16:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12792"},"modified":"2014-11-23T11:41:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T16:41:26","slug":"bengals-starting-giovani-bernard-at-rb-inactives-for-week-12-against-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/11\/23\/bengals-starting-giovani-bernard-at-rb-inactives-for-week-12-against-texans\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals starting Giovani Bernard at RB, inactives for Week 12 against Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/giovannibernard.jpg\" alt=\"giovannibernard\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12684\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/giovannibernard.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/giovannibernard-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Bengals will have Giovani Bernard return to the starters role when the team plays against the Texans in Week 12.<\/p>\n<p>This is not really a surprise even as Bernard has been outplayed by Jeremy Hill for much of the season. While Bernard will be getting the &#8220;start&#8221; there is nothing to suggest that the Bengals will not use the hot hand approach if Hill turns things on.<\/p>\n<p>In seven games this year the 23-year-old Bernard has 446 yards on 109 attempts (4.1 average) and five touchdowns. He has caught 22 passes for 179 yards.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengals&#8217; Week 12 inactives are WR Dane Sanzenbacher, RB Rex Burkhead, CB Chris Lewis-Harris, LB Vontaze Burfict, OT Tanner Hawkinson, WR Greg Little, DE Margus Hunt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bengals will have Giovani Bernard return to the starters role when the team plays against the Texans in Week 12. This is not really a surprise even as Bernard has been outplayed by Jeremy Hill for much of the season. While Bernard will be getting the &#8220;start&#8221; there is nothing to suggest that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[174,871,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-12792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","9":"tag-giovani-bernard","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12792","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=12792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12793,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12792\/revisions\/12793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12792"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}