{"id":935105,"date":"2026-10-20T16:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935105\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T16:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:04:10","slug":"alec-pierce-not-ready-to-return-to-practice-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935105\/","title":{"rendered":"Alec Pierce not ready to return to practice this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Colts receiver Alec Pierce is eligible to return to the field this week, he still needs more time before he\u2019s ready to practice. <\/p>\n<p>Head coach Shane Steichen said in his Monday news conference that Pierce, who is on injured reserve, will not practice this week as he\u2019s still in the rehab process.<\/p>\n<p>Pierce aggravated the heel injury he had surgically repaired in the offseason during Indianapolis\u2019 Week 2 loss to Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL\u2019s leader in yards per reception in each of the past two seasons, Pierce had five catches for 72 yards before he was sidelined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Colts receiver Alec Pierce is eligible to return to the field this week, he still needs more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-935105","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\/935105","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=935105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}