{"id":6511,"date":"2013-11-04T10:59:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=6511"},"modified":"2013-11-04T10:59:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T15:59:28","slug":"e-j-manuel-cleared-to-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/11\/04\/e-j-manuel-cleared-to-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"E.J. Manuel cleared to practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/20131104-105808.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/20131104-105808.jpg\" alt=\"20131104-105808.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Buffalo Bills may be able to welcome back quarterback E.J. Manuel this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel has been given the green light to practice but Bills head coach Doug Marrone will ultimately determine if the first-round pick will play in Week 10 against the Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills have been without Manuel since he suffered a knee injury on Oct. 3 against Cleveland. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>EJ Manuel says he&#39;s been cleared to practice. Decision to play up to Marrone, he says<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Rodak (@mikerodak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikerodak\/statuses\/397380985852948480\">November 4, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Without Manuel the Bills offense has been sluggish with Thad Lewis and Jeff Tuel under center.<\/p>\n<p>During his first five games,Manuel had a 56.7 completion percentage with 985 yards passing, five touchdowns and three interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills may be able to welcome back quarterback E.J. Manuel this weekend. Manuel has been given the green light to practice but Bills head coach Doug Marrone will ultimately determine if the first-round pick will play in Week 10 against the Steelers. The Bills have been without Manuel since he suffered a knee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-6511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511","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=6511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6511"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}