{"id":475649,"date":"2024-01-11T22:24:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T02:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=475649"},"modified":"2024-01-11T22:24:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T02:24:23","slug":"cleveland-star-cornerback-ward-injures-knee-in-training","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cleveland-star-cornerback-ward-injures-knee-in-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland star cornerback Ward injures knee in training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland Browns Pro Bowl CB <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/denzel-ward\/\">Denzel Ward<\/a> sustained a knee problem in today\u2019s practice, putting his availability in question for Saturday\u2019s postseason match vs. the Houston Texans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\udde5\ud835\uddd8\ud835\udde3\ud835\udde2\ud835\udde5\ud835\udde7: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Browns?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Browns<\/a> star Cornerback Denzel Ward injured his knee in practice today, leaving his availability for this week up in the air, per head coach Kevin Stefanski.<\/p>\n<p>Would be a big loss for Cleveland. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OsoGhitR6J\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/OsoGhitR6J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasrifootball\/status\/1745507176351764708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The NFL franchise manager, Kevin Stefanski, shared that Denzel was limited in training but refused to provide more information. The organization officially listed the cornerback as questionable.<\/p>\n<p>Denzel was named to his 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Pro Bowl while having a crucial role on the league\u2019s top defense. Ward has 2 interceptions on the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland today also ruled out safety <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/grant-delpit\/\">Grant Delpit<\/a>, kicker <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/dustin-hopkins\/\">Dustin Hopkins<\/a>, and WR Cedric Tillman.<\/p>\n<p>The team (11-5) is in the playoffs for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time since 2020 the 1st test in the postseason will be the Texans, as the match will be played in Houston at NRG Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland Browns Pro Bowl CB Denzel Ward sustained a knee problem in today\u2019s practice, putting his availability in question for Saturday\u2019s postseason match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":475650,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16975,21291,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[17995,21292,17873],"acf":{"announce":"The Browns' CB status is in question after the injury.","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\/475649"}],"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=475649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475652,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475649\/revisions\/475652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475649"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=475649"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=475649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}