{"id":531,"date":"2013-01-25T16:09:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T21:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=531"},"modified":"2013-01-25T16:10:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T21:10:03","slug":"marcus-lattimore-expects-to-be-ready-for-week-1-of-nfl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2013\/01\/25\/marcus-lattimore-expects-to-be-ready-for-week-1-of-nfl-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Lattimore expects to be ready for Week 1 of NFL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-532\" alt=\"marcuslattimore\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/01\/marcuslattimore.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/01\/marcuslattimore.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/01\/marcuslattimore-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The agent of South Carolina&#8217;s Marcus Lattimore says the running backs LCL and PCL are &#8220;tight as a drum.&#8221; He fully expects Lattimore to be ready to go for the start of the NFL season as his ACL rehap is also coming along well.<\/p>\n<p>Lattimore suffered his injuries on October 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust letting teams see me walk around,\u201d Lattimore <a href=\"http:\/\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2013\/01\/24\/marcus-lattimore-beating-the-bushes-in-mobile\/\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> Alex Marvez of FoxSports.com and Jim Miller on SiriusXM NFL Radio. \u201cI feel that\u2019s big \u2014 and know I\u2019m going to be fine and ready by Week 1.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. James Andrews has said Lattimore&#8217;s recovery is &#8220;nothing short of a miracle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lattimore would have been one of the top running backs available in the draft had he not suffered the aforementioned injuries. Still Lattimore belives he can help a team this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything happens for a reason. This reason was it made me mentally tougher,\u201d Lattimore said. \u201cIt put things in perspective where I\u2019ll never take anything \u2014 walking, running \u2014 for granted again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VjkFj52PsAQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agent of South Carolina&#8217;s Marcus Lattimore says the running backs LCL and PCL are &#8220;tight as a drum.&#8221; He fully expects Lattimore to be ready to go for the start of the NFL season as his ACL rehap is also coming along well. Lattimore suffered his injuries on October 27. \u201cJust letting teams see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaafb-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","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=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}