{"id":466837,"date":"2023-10-23T18:05:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T22:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=466837"},"modified":"2023-10-23T18:05:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T22:05:03","slug":"kansas-city-linebacker-bolton-is-out-6-weeks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kansas-city-linebacker-bolton-is-out-6-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City linebacker Bolton is out 6 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Chiefs LB Nick Bolton will undergo a procedure on his dislocated wrist.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Chiefs linebacker Nick Bolton is out at least six weeks with a dislocated wrist he suffered in Sunday\u2019s win against the Chargers, a league source said.What this means for Kansas City.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pN68Hbqm2a\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/pN68Hbqm2a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic NFL (@TheAthleticNFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticNFL\/status\/1716531549535891459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nick is expected to be sidelined for 6 weeks. The surgery will be on Tuesday in LA.<\/p>\n<p>Nick is 6<sup>th<\/sup> in the organization this campaign in tackles with 28. The linebacker missed 3 matches earlier in the campaign with an ankle problem.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City most likely will replace Nick with Drue Tranquill, who filled in for him during his unavailability earlier in the season. Tranquill leads the franchise with 37 tackles and also has almost 3 sacks and a forced fumble.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton sustained his injury in the Chief&#8217;s 31-17 win against the LA Chargers during the weekend on a tackle of Keenan Allen in the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton, selected by Kansas City in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round of the 2021 NFL Draft, led the organization in tackles each of the past 2 campaigns, including a career-high 180 in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Chiefs LB Nick Bolton will undergo a procedure on his dislocated wrist. Chiefs linebacker Nick Bolton is out at least six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":466838,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16919,17324,17099],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18206,17873,21893],"acf":{"announce":"The Chiefs player could miss up to 6 weeks.","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\/466837"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466840,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466837\/revisions\/466840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466837"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=466837"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=466837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}