{"id":3756,"date":"2014-12-26T18:47:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T23:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2014-12-26T18:47:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T23:47:01","slug":"clint-tricett-retires-from-football-citing-concussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2014\/12\/26\/clint-tricett-retires-from-football-citing-concussions\/","title":{"rendered":"Clint Tricett retires from football citing concussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_2955\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2955\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2014\/10\/clinttrickettwestvirginia.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"441\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2014\/10\/clinttrickettwestvirginia.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2014\/10\/clinttrickettwestvirginia-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nWest Virginia quarterback Clint Trickett has retired from football. The senior will step away from the game after he allegedly suffered five concussions &#8211; including two he hid from trainers &#8211; over the last 14 months.<\/p>\n<p>Trickett will not play in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl against Texas A&#038;M after he failed to get clearance from a concussion suffered on Nov. 20 against Kansas State.<\/p>\n<p>The school announced Friday that Trickett would not play in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl against Texas A&#038;M after failing to get cleared from a concussion he suffered on Nov. 20 against Kansas State.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Skyler Howard, who relieved Trickett in the K-State game and started for him the following weekend at Iowa State, will start. Howard has thrown for 483 yards, five touchdowns and no interceptions during his two games.<\/p>\n<p>Trickett finished his final season completing 67 percent of his passes for 3,285 yards and 18 touchdowns. He hopes to pursue a career in coaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia quarterback Clint Trickett has retired from football. The senior will step away from the game after he allegedly suffered five concussions &#8211; including two he hid from trainers &#8211; over the last 14 months. Trickett will not play in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl against Texas A&#038;M after he failed to get clearance from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,131],"tags":[224,135,134],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-3756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaafb-news","8":"category-ncaafb-topstory","9":"tag-clint-trickett","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-ncaafb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756","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=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3757,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions\/3757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}