{"id":335417,"date":"2025-12-09T21:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335417\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:55:10","slug":"raiders-kyu-blu-kelly-out-for-season-with-torn-patellar-tendon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335417\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders&#8217; Kyu Blu Kelly out for season with torn patellar tendon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON, Nev. \u2014 Cornerback Kyu Blu Kelly, who leads the Las Vegas Raiders with three interceptions, was placed on season-ending injured reserve Tuesday because of a tear in his patellar tendon.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly was injured in\u00a0Sunday&#8217;s 24-17 loss to Denver.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders signed cornerback Chigozie Anusiem off Arizona&#8217;s practice squad in a corresponding move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou notice, it was in open field,&#8221; coach Pete Carroll said Monday. &#8220;It was just a freak accident that shouldn\u2019t happen. You didn\u2019t see it buckle or anything. He just planted and sometimes that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly, who is from Las Vegas, had been one of the few feel-good stories during an otherwise difficult season for the Raiders. He hadn&#8217;t started over his first two seasons in the NFL and bounced around to four teams, including the Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly started eight games this season and played in all 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HENDERSON, Nev. \u2014 Cornerback Kyu Blu Kelly, who leads the Las Vegas Raiders with three interceptions, was placed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-335417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}