{"id":901739,"date":"2026-09-22T21:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/901739\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T21:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:30:14","slug":"packers-rt-zach-bako-bewele-out-for-season-with-torn-patellar-tendon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/901739\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers RT Zach Bako-Bewele out for season with torn patellar tendon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Packers will need a new right tackle for the rest of the 2026 season. <\/p>\n<p>Zach Bako-Bewele told reporters on Tuesday that he suffered a torn patellar tendon in Sunday\u2019s overtime win over the Jets. Bako-Bewele was carted off the field after getting hurt on Green Bay\u2019s third offensive play. <\/p>\n<p>Bako-Bewele suffered a partial tear of the same tendon last December and said that he has been told he has a nine-month recovery timeline from his current injury. <\/p>\n<p>Anthony Belton replaced Bako-Bewele against the Jets and the team also had left guard Aaron Banks leave the game with a toe injury, so they may have two new starters up front against the Falcons on Thursday night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Packers will need a new right tackle for the rest of the 2026 season. Zach Bako-Bewele told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-901739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}