{"id":11430,"date":"2014-09-10T17:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T21:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11430"},"modified":"2014-09-10T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T21:00:51","slug":"rams-chris-long-to-undergo-surgery-shaun-hill-not-practicing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/09\/10\/rams-chris-long-to-undergo-surgery-shaun-hill-not-practicing\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams: Chris Long to undergo surgery, Shaun Hill not practicing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11431\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11431\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11431\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/chrislong.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/chrislong.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/chrislong-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chris Long will undergo surgery on his left ankle and miss the next several weeks, Rams head coach Jeff Fisher announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Long is expected to miss the next 8-10 weeks which would place him out until November and other further adds to the injury woes of the Rams who began the season without quarterback Sam Bradford.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Rams DE Chris Long is expected to miss 8-10 weeks after undergoing ankle surgery, per source.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/509791198614007808\">September 10, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Long was injured in the third quarter of a 34-6 loss to the Vikings on Sunday. His ankle was rolled up on a rushing attempt by Adrian Peterson.<\/p>\n<p>Long, the second overall pick in the 2008 NFL Draft, has 33 sacks since 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shaun Hill not practicing\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Things are not much better on the offensive side of the ball for the Rams. Quarterback Shaun Hill did not practice Wednesday and\u00a0while Fisher defended the 34-year-old quarterback on Tuesday his status going forward is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>If Hill is indeed unable to go against the Buccaneers then Austin Davis will get the start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Long will undergo surgery on his left ankle and miss the next several weeks, Rams head coach Jeff Fisher announced on Wednesday. Long is expected to miss the next 8-10 weeks which would place him out until November and other further adds to the injury woes of the Rams who began the season without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[447,426,216,821],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-11430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chris-long","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-st-louis-rans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11430","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=11430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11432,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11430\/revisions\/11432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11430"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}