{"id":5131,"date":"2013-09-13T14:33:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T18:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2013-09-13T14:33:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T18:33:42","slug":"colts-lose-rb-vick-ballard-to-acl-tear-in-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/09\/13\/colts-lose-rb-vick-ballard-to-acl-tear-in-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts lose RB Vick Ballard to ACL tear in practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5132\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5132\" alt=\"Patrick Smith\/Getty Images North America\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/vickballard.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/vickballard.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/vickballard-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/vickballard-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Smith\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The season of Indianapolis Colts running back Vic Ballard is over after one game.<\/p>\n<p>Ballard, a second-year player, tore his right ACL in practice on Thursday and will miss the rest of the season. The 23-year-old Ballard was second on the Colts depth chart at running back behind Ahman Bradshaw.<\/p>\n<p>Kerwynn Williams has been promoted from the practice squad while Donald Brown figures to get a few carries as the backup to Bradshaw.<\/p>\n<p>Ballard ran for 814 yards and two touchdowns in his rookie season in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The season of Indianapolis Colts running back Vic Ballard is over after one game. Ballard, a second-year player, tore his right ACL in practice on Thursday and will miss the rest of the season. The 23-year-old Ballard was second on the Colts depth chart at running back behind Ahman Bradshaw. Kerwynn Williams has been promoted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[81,395],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-5131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-indianapolis-colts","9":"tag-vick-ballard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131","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=5131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5131"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}