{"id":9922,"date":"2014-04-20T21:56:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T01:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9922"},"modified":"2014-04-20T21:56:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T01:56:50","slug":"marcus-lattimore-im-ready-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/04\/20\/marcus-lattimore-im-ready-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Lattimore: &#8220;I&#8217;m ready to play&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/07\/marcuslattimore.jpg\" alt=\"marcuslattimore\" width=\"675\" height=\"310\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/07\/marcuslattimore.jpg 675w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/07\/marcuslattimore-300x137.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/07\/marcuslattimore-50x22.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><br \/>\nSan Francisco 49ers running back Marcus Lattimore has been eyeing a return to the field after having to sit out his entire rookie season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter my injury, I just wanted to walk again,\u201d Lattimore said on Friday to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gogamecocks.com\/2014\/04\/19\/589197\/im-ready-to-play-lattimore-optimistic.html?sp=\/99\/101\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GoGamecocks.com<\/a>. \u201cIt was tough, very tough. We\u2019re a playoff team, so we play 20-plus games. Being on that sideline, we got so close to the Super Bowl title the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m blessed to be in this situation. Never would have thought in a million years I\u2019d be in this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lattimore is hoping to return to football after a graphic knee injury ended his 2012 season at South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ywemwRy2PXM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lattimore is ready to head to minicamp for the 49ers. With Anthony Dixon signing with Buffalo and reports circulating that LaMichael James is on the trade block the 49ers may be setting Lattimore up for a considerable role this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe and Kendall want to have a chance to do that,\u201d Lattimore said about backing up Gore. \u201cGo out there and help that team. If we can go and take some pressure of Frank, we can also help (Colin Kaepernick) move around.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco 49ers running back Marcus Lattimore has been eyeing a return to the field after having to sit out his entire rookie season. \u201cAfter my injury, I just wanted to walk again,\u201d Lattimore said on Friday to GoGamecocks.com. \u201cIt was tough, very tough. We\u2019re a playoff team, so we play 20-plus games. Being on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,329,216,209],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-marcus-lattimore","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-san-francisco-49ers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922","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=9922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9924,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions\/9924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9922"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}