{"id":40586,"date":"2018-08-15T19:37:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T23:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=40586"},"modified":"2018-08-15T19:37:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T23:37:51","slug":"ben-ijalana-placed-on-i-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2018\/08\/15\/ben-ijalana-placed-on-i-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Ijalana Placed on I.R."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NY jets announced the signing of a new offensive lineman today because they had to place Ben Ijalana on IR.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have signed OL Gino Gradkowski and placed OL Ben Ijalana on IR.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a1W0lpok1n\">https:\/\/t.co\/a1W0lpok1n<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2rkIZT1xQy\">pic.twitter.com\/2rkIZT1xQy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyjets\/status\/1029798158996570113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a> placed swing tackle Ben Ijalana on IR after he hurt his shoulder this week during joint practices with Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Brent Qvale, who struggled in preseason opener (especially on outside zone run plays), is the top backup tackle now.<\/p>\n<p>O-line could be big issue for NYJ<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manish Mehta (@MMehtaSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMehtaSports\/status\/1029801901230096385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ijalana hurt his shoulder this week in one of the joint practices with the Redskins. That is what landed him on IR. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nyj?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#nyj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Costello (@BrianCoz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianCoz\/status\/1029800553956757506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Ijalana, a 6\u20194\u201d, 322-pounder in his eighth season out of Villanova, was injured during a Jets-Redskins practice session in Richmond, VA. The veteran swing tackle has appeared in 34 career games and made 13 starts. He made all 13 starts for the Green &amp; White in the 2016 campaign before returning to a depth role in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Gradkowski spent the last two seasons with the Panthers, but both were cut short because of injuries. Originally a fourth-round pick out of Delaware by the Ravens in 2012, Gradkowski spent three seasons in Baltimore before splitting time with the Broncos and Falcons in 2015. The 6\u20193\u201d, 300-pounder is the younger brother of former NFL quarterback Bruce Gradkowski.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY jets announced the signing of a new offensive lineman today because they had to place Ben Ijalana on IR. We have signed OL Gino Gradkowski and placed OL Ben Ijalana on IR. \ud83d\udcf0 https:\/\/t.co\/a1W0lpok1n pic.twitter.com\/2rkIZT1xQy &mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) August 15, 2018 #Jets placed swing tackle Ben Ijalana on IR after he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":32189,"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":[2966],"class_list":{"0":"post-40586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-injury-report","8":"category-jet-news","9":"tag-gino-gradkowski"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_5947.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-ayC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40586","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40591,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40586\/revisions\/40591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}