{"id":2852,"date":"2011-11-27T19:49:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T00:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2011-12-15T02:00:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T07:00:50","slug":"injuries-give-yates-a-starting-qb-job-in-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=2852","title":{"rendered":"Injuries give Yates a starting QB job in the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago Matt Schaub went down to injury as the Houston Texans&#8217; quarterback and today the back-up Matt Leinart was lost for the year with a shoulder injury. All of a sudden this is rookie T.J. Yates&#8217; team. <\/p>\n<p>The former UNC quarterback went eight of 15 and led the Texans on a drive that ended in a field goal.  \u201cThose first couple of plays I didn\u2019t even have enough time to think about much,\u201d Yates said. \u201cI didn\u2019t have time to get warm or anything. I just kind of went in there and didn\u2019t think about it \u2013 I just played fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Writer Jeffrey Martin of the website Ultimate Texans has written an excellent piece titled &#8220;Texans must now rally behind rookie QB T.J. Yates. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/ultimatetexans\/2011\/11\/texans-must-now-rally-behind-rookie-qb-t-j-yates\/\" target=\"_blank\">Access it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CapitalSportsNC didn&#8217;t expect Yates&#8217; chance to come this early but in August we wrote a piece titled &#8220;Could UNC&#8217;s Yates be the next Brady?&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=1941\" target=\"_blank\">Access it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago Matt Schaub went down to injury as the Houston Texans&#8217; quarterback and today the back-up Matt Leinart was lost for the year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-uncategorized","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-1-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}