{"id":1963,"date":"2013-12-04T10:16:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2013-12-04T10:17:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:17:51","slug":"zach-mettenberger-has-torn-acl-to-miss-bowl-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2013\/12\/04\/zach-mettenberger-has-torn-acl-to-miss-bowl-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Mettenberger has torn ACL, to miss bowl game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/12\/20131204-101442.jpg\" alt=\"20131204-101442.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nLSU Tigers quarterback Zach Mettenberger will miss the school&#8217;s bowl game.<\/p>\n<p>Mettenberger has a torn ACL reports ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>As a senior Mettenberger became just the third quarterback in LSU history to top 3,000 yards in a season before he was injured in a 31-27 win over Arkansas last week. Mettenberger finishes the season with 22 touchdown passes and was fourth in the national with a 171.45 passer rating.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Jennings who replaced Mettenberger last week would start in a bowl game for LSU.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>THIS JUST IN: LSU QB Zach Mettenberger has torn ACL; will not play in bowl game. (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caplannfl\">@caplannfl<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/statuses\/408091029758156800\">December 4, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mettenberger had been considered as high as a second round pick for next year&#8217;s draft. He now figures to miss his entire rookie season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LSU Tigers quarterback Zach Mettenberger will miss the school&#8217;s bowl game. Mettenberger has a torn ACL reports ESPN. As a senior Mettenberger became just the third quarterback in LSU history to top 3,000 yards in a season before he was injured in a 31-27 win over Arkansas last week. Mettenberger finishes the season with 22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[41,134,43],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-1963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaafb-news","8":"tag-lsu-tigers","9":"tag-ncaafb","10":"tag-zach-mettenberger"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}