{"id":727336,"date":"2026-06-26T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/727336\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:18:08","slug":"zach-ertz-doing-everything-i-can-to-get-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/727336\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Ertz &#8220;doing everything I can&#8221; to get back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Ertz said in April that he does not want last season\u2019s torn ACL to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/zach-ertz-i-dont-want-torn-acl-to-be-my-last-play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">be the final act<\/a> of his NFL career and said he has \u201ceyes wide open\u201d to the need to show he\u2019s healthy in order to find a place to play in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Ertz gave an update on his health during an appearance on the New Heights podcast this week. Ertz was injured in Week 14 and said the process of getting back to full strength is ongoing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in a good spot. We\u2019re like five, almost six months <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6VIphreQhJM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">now from surgery<\/a>,\u201d Ertz said. \u201cJust training every day, doing everything I can to get back to where I was. It\u2019s a long process. There\u2019s some long days, there\u2019s some long weeks, some long months . . . it\u2019s tough, but we\u2019re just trying to stack these days right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ertz had 50 catches for 504 yards and four touchdowns for the Commanders last season and teams will likely start looking into how close he is to that form a bit later this summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zach Ertz said in April that he does not want last season\u2019s torn ACL to be the final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-727336","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\/727336","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=727336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}