{"id":3159,"date":"2013-03-15T12:50:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T16:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2013-03-15T12:50:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T16:50:43","slug":"steelers-physical-confirms-beanie-wells-has-a-bad-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/03\/15\/steelers-physical-confirms-beanie-wells-has-a-bad-knee\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers physical confirms Beanie Wells has a bad knee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3160\" alt=\"beaniewells\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/beaniewells.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/beaniewells.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/beaniewells-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/beaniewells-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beanie Wells dealt with knee and toe issues last season while in Arizona. His physical with Pittsburgh seemed to confirm the obvious.<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette&#8217;s Gary Dulac noted that Wells has a &#8220;BAD wheel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It may be some time before we hear Wells&#8217; name again. Further physicals will only reveal the same thing. It may take the former Ohio State running back a few months to get healthy.<\/p>\n<p>At 24 years of age, there is still time for Wells but his track record will keep him from ever being a featured back. The most games Wells has ever played in a season is 14 which occurred during the 2011 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beanie Wells dealt with knee and toe issues last season while in Arizona. His physical with Pittsburgh seemed to confirm the obvious. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette&#8217;s Gary Dulac noted that Wells has a &#8220;BAD wheel.&#8221; It may be some time before we hear Wells&#8217; name again. Further physicals will only reveal the same thing. It may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[254],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-beanie-wells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","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=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}