{"id":15156,"date":"2015-12-27T10:14:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T15:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=15156"},"modified":"2015-12-27T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T15:14:52","slug":"eddie-royal-to-play-alshon-jeffrey-to-miss-game-against-tampa-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/12\/27\/eddie-royal-to-play-alshon-jeffrey-to-miss-game-against-tampa-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Royal to play, Alshon Jeffrey to miss game against Tampa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15157\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/12\/alshonjeffery.jpg\" alt=\"alshonjeffery\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/12\/alshonjeffery.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/12\/alshonjeffery-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bears wide receiver Alshon Jeffery is not expected to play in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Buccaneers.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffery has had a rough season plagued by injures which will now see him miss his sixth game. With Jeffrey out the Bears will start Eddie Royal and Josh Bellamy as their receivers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GAME PREVIEW: <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/12\/26\/chicago-bears-vs-tampa-bay-buccaneers-betting-odds-point-spread-and-tv-streaming\/\">Bears and Buccaneers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bears?src=hash\">#Bears<\/a> WR Eddie Royal (knee) made the trip and is set to play vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bucs?src=hash\">#Bucs<\/a>, source said. Meanwhile, WR Alshon Jeffery (hamstring) expected out<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/681053933184221185\">December 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Without Jeffrey, Marquess Wilson and Martellus Bennett the Bears are going to have a tough time scoring points today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pb\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bears wide receiver Alshon Jeffery is not expected to play in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Buccaneers. Jeffery has had a rough season plagued by injures which will now see him miss his sixth game. With Jeffrey out the Bears will start Eddie Royal and Josh Bellamy as their receivers. GAME PREVIEW: Bears and Buccaneers #Bears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[224,36,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-15156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-alshon-jeffery","tag-chicago-bears","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15156","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=15156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15158,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15156\/revisions\/15158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15156"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}