{"id":3996,"date":"2010-03-13T10:45:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T14:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2019-11-27T06:50:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T10:50:13","slug":"new-woe-for-wes-welker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2010\/03\/13\/new-woe-for-wes-welker\/","title":{"rendered":"New Woe For Wes Welker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/sports\/football\/patriots\/view\/20100312wes_welker_also_battling_torn_rotator_cuff\/srvc=home&amp;position=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wes Welker now has two major  injuries<\/a> to battle back from.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots <a href=\"http:\/\/patriots.bostonherald.com\/patriots.bg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><\/strong><\/a> receiver suffered a torn  rotator cuff, a source  confirmed to the Herald. Add that to the torn  MCL and ACL in his left  knee that robbed Welker of his postseason,  injuries that will make  getting ready for 2010 an uphill battle.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear how Welker tore his rotator cuff, nor is a timetable  for  recovery clear. But it is an added roadblock for last season\u2019s  leading  receiver, as he tries to come back from his already debilitating  knee  injury.<\/p>\n<p>The news was first reported in a blog called Big Rips.<\/p>\n<p>There are several variations of torn rotator cuffs, so it is  difficult  to gauge if this will prolong his fight back onto the field.<\/p>\n<p>Welker, who led the NFL with 123 catches for 1,348 yards and four   touchdowns, had surgery to repair torn knee ligaments on Feb. 2.<\/p>\n<p>In comments posted on his foundation\u2019s Web site after his injury,   Welker said, \u201cIn time, I plan on coming back as the player I was and   much more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can discuss this in our <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/\">NFL message board<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wes Welker now has two major injuries to battle back from. The Patriots receiver suffered a torn rotator cuff, a source confirmed to the Herald. Add that to the torn MCL and ACL in his left knee that robbed Welker of his postseason, injuries that will make getting ready for 2010 an uphill battle. It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nfl-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-12s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46862,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/46862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}