{"id":17683,"date":"2018-01-10T16:01:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T21:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=17683"},"modified":"2018-01-10T16:01:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T21:01:54","slug":"shazier-has-feeling-in-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2018\/01\/10\/shazier-has-feeling-in-legs\/","title":{"rendered":"Shazier has feeling in legs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier has regained feeling in his legs, according to WPXI-Pittsburgh.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Shazier, 25, suffered a spinal injury on Dec. 4 during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals. After colliding with Cincinnati Bengals running back Giovani Bernard at an unfortunate angle, Shazier collapsed and had to be carted off the field.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cHe said, \u2018Daddy, pray for me. I can\u2019t feel my legs,\u2019\u201d Shazier\u2019s father, Vernon, said in an interview with WPXI.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Vernon would not go into detail on his son\u2019s current condition, but mentioned he is \u201cmaking progress daily.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWe agreed to keep his progress private until he\u2019s ready to share where he is at,\u201d Vernon said. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Shazier had spinal stabilization surgery on Dec. 6 following his transfer from the hospital in Cincinnati to Pittsburgh. Vernon, being a pastor at the Mount Bethel Ministries in Ft Pierce, Fla., has been praying around the situation the whole time, including for the doctors.\"2dfa6d963ef76b305f325955387994d4.jpg\"<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWe were there 40 minutes and the doctor walked in and said we have to do spine surgery,\u201d Vernon said. \u201cI said, \u2018OK, when?\u2019 \u2018Twenty minutes.\u2019 I said, \u2018I need to do something.\u2019 I said, \u2018I need to pray for you.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Vernon recalled wanting to switch positions with his son when he first saw the injury, but now envisions Ryan playing football again one day.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cI Shalieve,\u201d Vernon said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Shazier has been watching his team play from a suite at Heinz Field. He has been at two of the games he\u2019s been out for, and was at the team\u2019s practice facility on Dec. 23 in a wheelchair. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Shazier has remained a large part of the Steelers locker room. Many teammates have visited him in the hospital since his injury. Some teammates wore customized Shazier cleats or No. 50 shirts under their pads in the team\u2019s Dec. 10 matchup against the Baltimore Ravens. After the win, the Steelers dedicated it to Shazier and awarded him the game ball.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWe are riding with that guy,\u201d said head coach Mike Tomlin after that win. \u201cHe is strong. He is strengthening us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The Steelers would love to have him playing, but will have to settle for his moral support as they begin their path through the playoffs. The two-time Pro Bowler being out leaves an obvious whole in the defense. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The Steelers didn\u2019t play this last weekend, but will play in the upcoming week. Their first playoff game will be in Pittsburgh on Jan. 14. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier has regained feeling in his legs, according to WPXI-Pittsburgh. \u00a0 \u00a0Shazier, 25, suffered a spinal injury on Dec. 4 during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals. After colliding with Cincinnati Bengals running back Giovani Bernard at an unfortunate angle, Shazier collapsed and had to be carted off the field. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10416,"featured_media":17694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tartan-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-4Bd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17697,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions\/17697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}