{"id":12946,"date":"2014-11-29T13:42:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T18:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12946"},"modified":"2014-11-29T13:43:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T18:43:12","slug":"panthers-waive-running-back-chris-ogbonnaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/11\/29\/panthers-waive-running-back-chris-ogbonnaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers waive running back Chris Ogbonnaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/ChrisOgbonnaya.jpg\" alt=\"ChrisOgbonnaya\" width=\"594\" height=\"434\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12947\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/ChrisOgbonnaya.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/ChrisOgbonnaya-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe crowded backfield of the Carolina Panthers got thinned out a bit on Saturday when the team waived running back Chris Ogbonnaya.<\/p>\n<p>A decision to waive Ogbonnaya is not that much of a surprise given that the Panthers currently have DeAngelo Williams, Jonathan Stewart and Fozzy Whittaker on their roster.<\/p>\n<p>With Ogbonnaya&#8217;s departure from the roster the Panthers have promoted defensive tackle Micanor Regis from their practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>Ogbonnaya&#8217;s tenure with the Panthers ends with 14 carries for 50 yards spread across five games. He has not played since Oct. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Someone could take a chance on the former Cleveland back who ran 48 times for 239 yards (5.0 avg) a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crowded backfield of the Carolina Panthers got thinned out a bit on Saturday when the team waived running back Chris Ogbonnaya. A decision to waive Ogbonnaya is not that much of a surprise given that the Panthers currently have DeAngelo Williams, Jonathan Stewart and Fozzy Whittaker on their roster. With Ogbonnaya&#8217;s departure from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-12946","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\/12946","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=12946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12949,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946\/revisions\/12949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12946"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}