{"id":4479,"date":"2013-08-04T13:29:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T17:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=4479"},"modified":"2013-08-04T13:29:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T17:29:36","slug":"tyler-eifert-becoming-bengals-top-target-in-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/08\/04\/tyler-eifert-becoming-bengals-top-target-in-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Eifert becoming Bengals top target in practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4480\" alt=\"tylereifert\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/tylereifert.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/tylereifert.jpg 576w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/tylereifert-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/tylereifert-50x28.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tyler Eifert has become the favorite target of Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton in camp. Eifert, 22, was the 22nd overall pick in April&#8217;s draft.<\/p>\n<p>The former Notre Dame tight end has quickly established himself as a ball catching machine with the absence of A.J. Green.<\/p>\n<p>A.J. Green will miss Thursday nights preseason game against the Falcons which should allow everyone to see exactly how much of the Bengals game plan Eifert will be a part of this year. Offensive coordinator Jay Gruden has hinted that Eifert could be used as a receiver in two-tight end sets.<\/p>\n<p>Last year Jermaine Gresham caught 64 passes for the Bengals and went to the Pro Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Eifert has become the favorite target of Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton in camp. Eifert, 22, was the 22nd overall pick in April&#8217;s draft. The former Notre Dame tight end has quickly established himself as a ball catching machine with the absence of A.J. Green. A.J. Green will miss Thursday nights preseason game against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[174,347],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-4479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","9":"tag-tyler-eifert"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479","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=4479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4479"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}