{"id":406974,"date":"2016-12-17T21:55:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T02:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=406974"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:31:42","slug":"rivera-kuechly-clears-concussion-protocol-status-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=406974","title":{"rendered":"Rivera: Kuechly clears concussion protocol, status uncertain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/rivera-newton-questionable-expected-to-play-vs-redskins\/16348751\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/nfl\/panthers\/2013\/10\/20\/13017376\/13017376-1467827864-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Panthers down Rams, 30-15\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Carolina Panthers middle linebacker Luke Kuechly has been cleared from the NFL&#8217;s concussion protocol by independent doctors to play Monday night against the Washington Redskins, according to team spokesman Steven Drummond. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/rivera-newton-questionable-expected-to-play-vs-redskins\/16348751\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/rivera-newton-questionable-expected-to-play-vs-redskins\/16348751\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Rivera: Kuechly clears concussion protocol, status uncertain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolina Panthers middle linebacker Luke Kuechly has been cleared from the NFL&#8217;s concussion protocol by independent doctors to play Monday night against the Washington Redskins, according&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-panthers","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-88-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406974","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904850,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406974\/revisions\/1904850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}