{"id":9797,"date":"2014-04-03T19:12:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T23:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9797"},"modified":"2014-04-03T19:12:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T23:12:56","slug":"bears-safety-undergoes-shoulder-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/04\/03\/bears-safety-undergoes-shoulder-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears safety undergoes shoulder surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/chrisconte.jpg\" alt=\"chrisconte\" width=\"594\" height=\"405\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9798\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/chrisconte.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/chrisconte-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/chrisconte-50x34.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chicago Bears safety Chris Conte has undergone shoulder surgery and will be out for the next four to five months.<\/p>\n<p>Conte is entering the final year of his rookie contract while the Bears had signed three safeties in free agency already. Now they will not have to contend with him during OTAs or minicamps.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>March shoulder surgery puts <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Bears&amp;src=hash\">#Bears<\/a> safety Chris Conte in rehab mode into and possibly through camp. 4-5 months.Drafting a safety a given.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Joniak (@JeffJoniak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffJoniak\/statuses\/451825465963982848\">April 3, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I\u2019m going to have to\u00a0compete for my position\u00a0on this team,\u201d Conte said, via the team\u2019s website. \u201cI am prepared to do that and felt having this surgery was the best way to be 100 percent healthy and be the best player I can possibly be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last season Conte started all 16 games for the Bears making 95 tackles and making three interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Bears safety Chris Conte has undergone shoulder surgery and will be out for the next four to five months. Conte is entering the final year of his rookie contract while the Bears had signed three safeties in free agency already. Now they will not have to contend with him during OTAs or minicamps. March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[36,704,426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-9797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-bears","tag-chris-conte","tag-front","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797","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=9797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9799,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797\/revisions\/9799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9797"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}