{"id":25967,"date":"2014-08-22T17:07:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=25967"},"modified":"2022-04-01T03:39:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T07:39:47","slug":"jalen-saunders-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2014\/08\/22\/jalen-saunders-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Saunders Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Jets rookie receiver Jalen Saunders was injured in a car accident on August 15, as reported by Brian Costello:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Jets announce rookie WR Jalen Saunders involved in a 1-car accident this AM. Taken to the hospital to be monitored as a precaution. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nyj?src=hash\">#nyj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian Costello (@BrianCoz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianCoz\/statuses\/500344001103671297\">August 15, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The events leading up to the crash are still mysterious. All that is known for sure is that Saunders suffered from some type of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2014\/08\/16\/jets-jalen-saunders-had-medical-incident-while-driving\/\">medical incident<\/a>&#8220;, as reported by NBC Sports, before crashing his vehicle. The details are still foggy.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets can only hope that Saunders, who was expected to be the team&#8217;s punt returner, can make his way back onto to field quickly. Wide receiver was one of New York&#8217;s weakest positions last year, and, despite adding players like Eric Decker and Jacoby Ford during free agency, they still need a lot of help. By recently placing rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2014\/08\/19\/shaq-evans-to-i-r\/\">Shaq Evans on injured reserve<\/a> earlier this week the Jets have added to the urgency of this situation. They need Saunders back. And fast.<\/p>\n<p>There is not a wealth of information regarding this topic, as the Jets and head coach Rex Ryan have been very reserved when discussing this issue.<\/p>\n<p>For Jet fans everywhere, let&#8217;s hope Saunders return comes sooner, rather than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Jets rookie receiver Jalen Saunders was injured in a car accident on August 15, as reported by Brian Costello: Jets announce rookie WR Jalen Saunders involved in a 1-car accident this AM. Taken to the hospital to be monitored as a precaution. #nyj \u2014 Brian Costello (@BrianCoz) August 15, 2014 The events leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":26061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-injury-report","8":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jalensaunders-e1408741592392.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-6KP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25967"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26062,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967\/revisions\/26062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}