{"id":5595,"date":"2013-09-30T08:43:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T12:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2013-09-30T08:43:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T12:43:17","slug":"report-patriots-vince-wilfork-diagnosed-with-a-torn-achilles-tendon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/09\/30\/report-patriots-vince-wilfork-diagnosed-with-a-torn-achilles-tendon\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Patriots Vince Wilfork diagnosed with a torn Achilles&#8217; tendon."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5596\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5596\" alt=\"Source: Winslow Townson\/Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/wilfork.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/wilfork.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/wilfork-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/wilfork-50x34.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Winslow Townson\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New England Patriots NT Vince Wilfork suffered \u00a0a torn Achilles&#8217; tendon in \u00a0New England&#8217;s 30-23 win over Atlanta on Sunday, according to <em>The Boston Globe.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>league source: Vince Wilfork has torn Achilles &#8211; almost certainly ends his season<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 shalise manza young (@shalisemyoung) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shalisemyoung\/statuses\/384560598316773376\">September 30, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the news is true, it means that Wilfork&#8217;s season is over, as typically Achilles injuries take six to nine months to recover from, according to Dr. Robert Anderson, an\u00a0NFL foot and ankle\u00a0specialist.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots will have a huge hole in their defense.<\/p>\n<p>Wilfork went down in the first quarter of Sunday night&#8217;s win, he\u00a0appeared to step on another player&#8217;s foot, and he immediately had to come out of the game.\u00a0He\u00a0was taken to the Patriots locker room on a cart and ended up leaving the Georgia Dome with a protective boot on his right foot.<\/p>\n<p>Wilfork has missed just six games in 10 NFL seasons, and none \u00a0since 2009. Joe Vellano and Chris Jones are next up on the depth chart, but the Pats will likely be in the market for help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New England Patriots NT Vince Wilfork suffered \u00a0a torn Achilles&#8217; tendon in \u00a0New England&#8217;s 30-23 win over Atlanta on Sunday, according to The Boston Globe. league source: Vince Wilfork has torn Achilles &#8211; almost certainly ends his season \u2014 shalise manza young (@shalisemyoung) September 30, 2013 If the news is true, it means that Wilfork&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[23,411],"coauthors":[28],"class_list":{"0":"post-5595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-new-england-patriots","9":"tag-vince-wilfork"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}