{"id":2953,"date":"2013-02-13T10:08:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T15:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=2953"},"modified":"2013-02-13T10:08:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T15:08:19","slug":"johnny-knox-unlikely-to-play-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/02\/13\/johnny-knox-unlikely-to-play-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Knox &#8220;unlikely to play again&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2954\" alt=\"johnnyknox\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/johnnyknox.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/johnnyknox.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/johnnyknox-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/johnnyknox-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Johnny Knox may not play in the NFL ever again. Knox missed the 2012 season and sources told the Chicago Tribune that the wide receiver is &#8220;unlikely to play again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Knox sustained a thoracic-lumbar junction fracture-dislocation with neurological involvement back in Week 15 of the 2011 season.<\/p>\n<p>Since that time Knox has had to retrain himself how to walk and get out of bed. On Tuesday the bears terminated the contract of the 26-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I admire him for what he has been through and his effort to try to make it back,&#8221;\u00a0Former position coach Darryl Drake <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/football\/bears\/ct-spt-0213-bears-knox-chicago--20130213,0,6341826.story\" target=\"_blank\">said Tuesday<\/a>. &#8220;With something as devastating as what he has gone through, and when you look back at where he was and how far he has come, I&#8217;m proud of him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Knox, a fifth-round NFL draft pick in 2009 from Abilene Christian in Texas, started 27 of 45 games over three seasons. He had 133 receptions for 2,214 yards and 12 touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Knox may not play in the NFL ever again. Knox missed the 2012 season and sources told the Chicago Tribune that the wide receiver is &#8220;unlikely to play again.&#8221; Knox sustained a thoracic-lumbar junction fracture-dislocation with neurological involvement back in Week 15 of the 2011 season. Since that time Knox has had to retrain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[106],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-2953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-johnny-knox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","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=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}