{"id":5437,"date":"2019-08-08T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2019-08-08T17:37:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T21:37:05","slug":"offensive-lineman-nathan-niehaus-on-his-decision-to-leave-the-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2019\/08\/08\/offensive-lineman-nathan-niehaus-on-his-decision-to-leave-the-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Offensive lineman Nathan Niehaus on his decision to leave the program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tennessee junior offensive lineman <strong>Nathan Niehuas<\/strong> has left the football program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After being noticeably absent from practice on Wednesday, <strong>Jeremy Pruitt<\/strong> confirmed during his post-practice media session that Niehaus has, in fact, made the decision to leave the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The redshirt junior didn&#8217;t play during his first two seasons in Knoxville, but appeared in ten games last season for the Vols, starting six times at right guard while also playing some at tackle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niehaus had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/forum\/threads\/nathan-niehaus-has-left-the-team.306262\/post-16997889\">moved from right tackle to guard<\/a> during Tuesday&#8217;s practice, according to Patrick Brown. Some speculated that move might have triggered his departure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today,  Niehuas released a statement that he is retiring from football due to injuries and the overlapping war on his body. He thanked his coaches &#8212; Fulmer, Pruitt, Chaney and Friend &#8212; for their support and encouragement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not without heavy heart&#8230;. thank you for everything \u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gCcYhJcIKO\">pic.twitter.com\/gCcYhJcIKO<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Nathan Niehaus (@nathankneehouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathankneehouse\/status\/1159536287470227458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discussion:<\/strong>  <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/forum\/threads\/nathan-niehaus-has-left-the-team.306262\/unread\">Nathan Niehaus has left the team<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Niehuas says he left the Tennessee football program due to sustained injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":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":[9],"tags":[422],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennessee-vols-football","tag-nathan-niehuas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/files\/2019\/08\/USATSI_11553882_161118632_lowres.jpg?fit=1763%2C1234&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5442,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions\/5442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}