{"id":9613,"date":"2014-03-16T12:52:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T16:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9613"},"modified":"2014-03-16T12:52:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T16:52:41","slug":"ray-rice-has-lost-15-pounds-since-season-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/03\/16\/ray-rice-has-lost-15-pounds-since-season-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Rice has lost 15 pounds since season ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8252\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8252\" alt=\"Ray Rice\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/rayrice.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/rayrice.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/rayrice-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/rayrice-50x34.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ray Rice&#8217;s legal situation is still unfolding from his arrest in February but the Baltimore Ravens running back is doing his part to get in shape for next season.<\/p>\n<p>Rice, 27, was playing at 225 pounds last season but has lost 15 pounds since the season came to a close.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Rice had just 3.1 yards per carry and saw his yards per catch drop as well.<\/p>\n<p>Rice&#8217; trainer Kyle Jakobe told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrollcountytimes.com\/blogs\/sports\/ravens\/trainer-ray-rice-working-hard-has-dropped-around-pounds\/article_11aaed08-ac80-11e3-93ff-001a4bcf887a.html#.UyS7cH98gKM.twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Carroll County<\/a> times that a hip injury that rice dealt with last season was a bigger problem than the running back let on.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u201cI don\u2019t think a lot of people understand the magnitude of the injury that he was dealing with and how much pain he was actually in,\u201d Jakobe said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u201cHe was definitely too heavy last year,\u201d Jakobe said. \u201cHe definitely came back this year and said, \u2018I feel heavy. I feel bloated. I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m moving as well. I could feel it in my body. I felt like my body was working too hard to make the same movements it made in previous years.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Rice&#8217;s legal situation is still unfolding from his arrest in February but the Baltimore Ravens running back is doing his part to get in shape for next season. Rice, 27, was playing at 225 pounds last season but has lost 15 pounds since the season came to a close. Last season Rice had just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[166,426,216,449],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-9613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-front","tag-nfl","tag-ray-rice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613","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=9613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9613"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}