{"id":11857,"date":"2014-10-05T12:10:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T16:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11857"},"modified":"2014-10-05T12:10:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T16:10:41","slug":"panthers-starting-darrin-reaves-at-running-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/10\/05\/panthers-starting-darrin-reaves-at-running-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers starting Darrin Reaves at running back"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11858\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/darrinreaves.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/darrinreaves.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/darrinreaves-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With both Jonathan Stewart (knee) and DeAngelo Williams (ankle) sidelined for Sunday&#8217;s game against the Bears it will be undrafted free agent Darrin Reaves who starts Week 5 for the Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>Reaves has shown some big play ability but will have to get things going early against a Bears defense ranked 20th against the run if he wants to continue to get carries. The Bears are allowing 122.5 rushing yards per game.<\/p>\n<p>Fozzy Whittaker and Chris Ogbonnaya also are expected to see playing time in the Panthers backfield this week. <\/p>\n<p>Fantasy Impact: Those looking for flex options may want to plug Reaves into their lineup. While the Bears shut down Eddie Lacy a week ago they have struggled overall against the run. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With both Jonathan Stewart (knee) and DeAngelo Williams (ankle) sidelined for Sunday&#8217;s game against the Bears it will be undrafted free agent Darrin Reaves who starts Week 5 for the Panthers. Reaves has shown some big play ability but will have to get things going early against a Bears defense ranked 20th against the run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-11857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857","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=11857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11859,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857\/revisions\/11859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11857"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}