{"id":135905,"date":"2025-09-06T00:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/135905\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T00:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:47:08","slug":"eagles-fb-ben-vansumeren-is-out-for-the-year-with-torn-patella-tendon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/135905\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles FB Ben VanSumeren is out for the year with torn patella tendon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first play of the 2025 regular season resulted in a season-ending injury.<\/p>\n<p>Eagles fullback Ben VanSumeren suffered a torn patella tendon during the opening kickoff of Thursday night\u2019s game against the Cowboys, via Adam Schefter of ESPN.com.<\/p>\n<p>Undrafted in 2023 as a linebacker, VanSumeren appeared in nine games as a rookie and 11 in 2024. He started playing fullback during the 2024 season. He suffered a season-ending knee injury during practice in late November.<\/p>\n<p>By 2025, fullback was his sole position; he was listed as the starter on the opening depth chart.<\/p>\n<p>VanSumeren was placed on injured reserve on Friday, opening the roster spot that went to pass rusher Za\u2019Darius Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first play of the 2025 regular season resulted in a season-ending injury. Eagles fullback Ben VanSumeren suffered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-135905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}