{"id":12136,"date":"2014-10-18T21:03:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T01:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12136"},"modified":"2014-10-18T21:03:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T01:03:40","slug":"kelvin-benjamin-expected-to-play-against-packers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/10\/18\/kelvin-benjamin-expected-to-play-against-packers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelvin Benjamin expected to play against Packers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_12137\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12137\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/kelvinbenjamin.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"390\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/kelvinbenjamin.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/kelvinbenjamin-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nKelvin Benjamin will play in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Packers reports the Charlotte Observer&#8217;s Joe Person.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin, who is probable with a concussion, traveled with the Panthers on Saturday. That Benjamin traveled with the team is a good sign that he will be on the field come Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Panthers?src=hash\">#Panthers<\/a> WR Kelvin Benjamin (concussion) made the trip to Wisconsin, per team official. All signs point to him playing Sun. vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Packers?src=hash\">#Packers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joe Person (@josephperson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josephperson\/status\/523575484903608321\">October 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With Sam Shields already out for the Packers and Tramon Williams questionable there is good a good bit of upside surrounding Benjamin this week.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin will look to improve on his seven catches for 49 yards and a touchdown a week ago against the Bengals. In six games this season the 23-year-old Benjamin has 31 receptions for 416 yards and four touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelvin Benjamin will play in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Packers reports the Charlotte Observer&#8217;s Joe Person. Benjamin, who is probable with a concussion, traveled with the Panthers on Saturday. That Benjamin traveled with the team is a good sign that he will be on the field come Sunday. #Panthers WR Kelvin Benjamin (concussion) made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[846,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-12136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-kelvin-benjamin","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12136","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=12136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12138,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12136\/revisions\/12138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12136"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}