{"id":5017,"date":"2013-09-08T22:25:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T02:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=5017"},"modified":"2013-09-08T22:38:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T02:38:45","slug":"steelers-larod-stephens-howling-tears-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/09\/08\/steelers-larod-stephens-howling-tears-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers: La&#8217;Rod Stephens-Howling tears ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5018\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5018\" alt=\"Justin K. Aller\/Getty Images North America\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/LaRodStephens-Howling.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/LaRodStephens-Howling.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/LaRodStephens-Howling-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/LaRodStephens-Howling-50x31.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin K. Aller\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>La&#8217;Rod Stephens-Howling has torn his ACL.<\/p>\n<p>The loss of\u00a0Stephens-Howling, 26, will further weaken the Steelers running back spot which was already missing Le&#8217;Veon Bell.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>More bad news for the Steelers: RB LaRod Stephens-Howling suffered a torn ACL today.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeGarafolo\/statuses\/376884212600549378\">September 9, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday the Steelers loss to Tennessee but season ending injuries to Stephens-Howling, center Maurkice Pouncey and linebacker Larry Foote will mean more going forward.<\/p>\n<p>The loss of Stephens-Howling will also hurt the Steelers on special teams. With his loss the Steelers will ride Issac Redman and Felix Jones in the backfield.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse for the Steelers, kicker Shaun Suisham sustained a hamstring injury and could miss some time himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La&#8217;Rod Stephens-Howling has torn his ACL. The loss of\u00a0Stephens-Howling, 26, will further weaken the Steelers running back spot which was already missing Le&#8217;Veon Bell. More bad news for the Steelers: RB LaRod Stephens-Howling suffered a torn ACL today. \u2014 Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) September 9, 2013 &nbsp; On Sunday the Steelers loss to Tennessee but season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[68],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-5017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017","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=5017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5017"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}