{"id":394663,"date":"2022-11-20T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T15:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394663"},"modified":"2023-03-01T09:23:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:23:35","slug":"heinicke-to-remain-commanders-starting-quarterback","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/heinicke-to-remain-commanders-starting-quarterback\/","title":{"rendered":"Heinicke to remain Commanders&#8217; starting quarterback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/washington-commanders\/\">Washington Commanders<\/a> plan to stick with <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/taylor-heinicke\/\">Taylor Heinicke<\/a> as their starting quarterback as long as he continues to play well and the team keeps winning, the NFL club said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From Wentz he came: Commanders to start Taylor Heinicke at QB moving forward, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RapSheet<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iNLP8SNcg4\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/iNLP8SNcg4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vvBCEgnNUE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vvBCEgnNUE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Around The NFL (@AroundTheNFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AroundTheNFL\/status\/1594338524467183622?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">Heinicke, who replaced the injured <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/carson-wentz\/\">Carson Wentz<\/a>, will start for a fifth consecutive time on Sunday when the Commanders (5-5) visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/houston-texans\/\">Houston Texans<\/a> (1-7-1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">Wentz suffered a right ring finger in an Oct. 13 win at Chicago. He was eligible to come off IR this past week, but Washington did not feel he was ready.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">After taking over for Wentz after Week 6, Heinicke has led a stunning turnaround for Washington, winning three of his last four games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">It&#8217;s also possible that Wentz returns to the starting lineup sooner rather than later &#8212; but only if Heinicke and the offense struggle and the Commanders start losing again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Commanders plan to stick with Taylor Heinicke as their starting quarterback as long as he continues to play well and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394664,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16853],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":" Commanders to start Taylor Heinicke at QB moving forward","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394663"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394663"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}