{"id":13518,"date":"2014-12-28T16:36:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T21:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=13518"},"modified":"2014-12-28T16:36:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T21:36:47","slug":"matt-forte-sets-running-back-receptions-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/12\/28\/matt-forte-sets-running-back-receptions-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Forte sets running back receptions record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/12\/mattforte.jpg\" alt=\"mattforte\" width=\"594\" height=\"457\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13519\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/12\/mattforte.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/12\/mattforte-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nMatt Forte had at-least a reason to smile following loss to the Vikings. The loss dropped the Bears to 5-11 on the season which results in a last place finish in the NFC North. <\/p>\n<p>Forte went over the 1,000 yard mark early in the game and later tallied eight receptions for 23 yards to set a new mar for receptions out of the backfield.<\/p>\n<p>Long known as one of the NFL&#8217;s better receiving targets out of the backfield, Forte finishes the season with 102 receptions breaking the 1995 mar set by Larry Centers.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a trend with this record. Much like the Bears of this season, the Cardinals of 1995 were not very good either finishing 4-12 on the year.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Forte is owed nearly $8 million for the 2015 season. The Bears are in flux but should have no problem finding a way to keep him around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Forte had at-least a reason to smile following loss to the Vikings. The loss dropped the Bears to 5-11 on the season which results in a last place finish in the NFC North. Forte went over the 1,000 yard mark early in the game and later tallied eight receptions for 23 yards to set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[36,426,27,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-13518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-bears","tag-front","tag-matt-forte","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13518","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=13518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13520,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13518\/revisions\/13520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13518"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}