{"id":13583,"date":"2014-12-30T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T22:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=13583"},"modified":"2014-12-30T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T22:54:10","slug":"steelers-refuse-to-rule-out-leveon-bell-sign-ben-tate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/12\/30\/steelers-refuse-to-rule-out-leveon-bell-sign-ben-tate\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers refuse to rule out Le&#8217;Veon Bell, sign Ben Tate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_11036\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11036\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/leveonbell.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"391\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11036\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/leveonbell.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/leveonbell-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Steelers signed running back Ben Tate on Tuesday ahead of their playoff game this weekend against the Baltimore Ravens.<\/p>\n<p>Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said that Le&#8217;Veon Bell did not suffer any structural damage after hyperextending his right knee on Sunday but indicated that the team was not willing to risk his long-term health by playing him.<\/p>\n<p>Bell has been working out and receiving treatment and was pedaling on a bike as if he was &#8220;going to prepare for the Tour de France,&#8221; Tomlin said.<\/p>\n<p>As insurance Bell was signed. He has been released by both the Browns and Vikings this season. <\/p>\n<p>Josh Harris, an undrafted rookie, would start in place of Bell if he cannot play. Harris has just 16 career rushing yards on nine carries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Steelers signed running back Ben Tate on Tuesday ahead of their playoff game this weekend against the Baltimore Ravens. Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said that Le&#8217;Veon Bell did not suffer any structural damage after hyperextending his right knee on Sunday but indicated that the team was not willing to risk his long-term health by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-13583","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\/13583","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=13583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13584,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions\/13584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13583"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}