{"id":10938,"date":"2014-08-16T01:09:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T05:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10938"},"modified":"2014-08-16T01:09:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T05:09:01","slug":"zach-mettenberger-performs-solid-in-second-preseason-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/08\/16\/zach-mettenberger-performs-solid-in-second-preseason-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Mettenberger performs solid in second preseason game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/zachmettenberger.jpg\" alt=\"zachmettenberger\" width=\"594\" height=\"413\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/zachmettenberger.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/zachmettenberger-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nTennessee Titans quarterback Zach Mettenberger was thrust into extended play on Friday night after second string Charlie Whitehurst left with an injury to his hand.<\/p>\n<p>Mettenberger was 20-of-25 for 270 yards and two touchdowns in the Titans but also threw an interception and fumbled.<\/p>\n<p>If Whitehurst&#8217;s hand injury is significant then Mettenberger could instantly become the backup to Jake Locker. Given Locker&#8217;s injury history the Titans could be forced to start Mettenberger at some point after initially planning to ride him on the bench this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Titans quarterback Zach Mettenberger was thrust into extended play on Friday night after second string Charlie Whitehurst left with an injury to his hand. Mettenberger was 20-of-25 for 270 yards and two touchdowns in the Titans but also threw an interception and fumbled. If Whitehurst&#8217;s hand injury is significant then Mettenberger could instantly become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[58,710],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-tennessee-titans","9":"tag-zach-mettenberger"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10940,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions\/10940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10938"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}