{"id":6388,"date":"2013-11-01T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=6388"},"modified":"2013-11-01T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:44:31","slug":"bengals-lose-geno-atkins-to-torn-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/11\/01\/bengals-lose-geno-atkins-to-torn-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals lose Geno Atkins to torn ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6389\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6389\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/genoatkins.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/genoatkins.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/genoatkins-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/genoatkins-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Cincinnati Bengals will finish the season without defensive tackle Geno Atkins.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Bengals heard coach Marvin Lewis confirmed that the 25-year-old Atkins suffered a torn right ACL in the Bengals 22-20 loss to the Miami Dolphins on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Atkins suffered the injury in the second quarter on a running play where his right knee got twisted under a mound of players. Atkins walked off the field with the aid of two teammates and then was carted to the locker room with 4:35 left in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Atkins recorded 12.5 sacks and added 53 tackles. He had already accumulated six sacks and 20 tackles this season.<\/p>\n<p>This immediately puts the Bengals on the lookout for help on the defensive line.<\/p>\n<p>In early September Atkins signed a five-year, $55 million extension with the Bengals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cincinnati Bengals will finish the season without defensive tackle Geno Atkins. On Friday, Bengals heard coach Marvin Lewis confirmed that the 25-year-old Atkins suffered a torn right ACL in the Bengals 22-20 loss to the Miami Dolphins on Thursday. Atkins suffered the injury in the second quarter on a running play where his right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,453,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-6388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-geno-atkins","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388","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=6388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6388"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}