{"id":3016,"date":"2013-02-26T20:45:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T01:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2013-02-26T20:45:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T01:45:18","slug":"london-fletcher-to-play-in-2013-if-healthy-enough-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/02\/26\/london-fletcher-to-play-in-2013-if-healthy-enough-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"London Fletcher to play in 2013 if &#8220;healthy enough to play&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2936\" alt=\"londonfletcher\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/londonfletcher.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/londonfletcher.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/londonfletcher-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/londonfletcher-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>London Fletcher has remained one of the NFL&#8217;s best linebackers even as he approaches 40. Fletcher says he will return in 2013 if he can &#8220;get myself healthy enough to play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The inside linebacker for the Redskins turns 38 in May and is owed $5.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(If I can) play at the level I am capable of playing, I will be back,&#8221; Fletcher said on NFL Network.<\/p>\n<p>Many have assumed that Fletcher would return for his 16th season but this is the time he has made a statement. Last season Fletcher combined for 139 tackles and recorded 3 sacks. Fletcher also set a career best with five interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>While the sack and interception numbers can not be assured it is safe to bet that Fletcher will once again be a key member of the Redskins defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Fletcher has remained one of the NFL&#8217;s best linebackers even as he approaches 40. Fletcher says he will return in 2013 if he can &#8220;get myself healthy enough to play.&#8221; The inside linebacker for the Redskins turns 38 in May and is owed $5.5 million. &#8220;(If I can) play at the level I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-3016","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\/3016","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=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}