{"id":10207,"date":"2014-05-10T19:35:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T23:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10207"},"modified":"2014-05-10T19:35:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T23:35:35","slug":"chiefs-take-aaron-murray-in-5th-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/05\/10\/chiefs-take-aaron-murray-in-5th-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs take Aaron Murray in 5th round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_10208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10208\" style=\"width: 542px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/aaronmurray.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"542\" height=\"594\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10208\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/aaronmurray.jpg 542w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/aaronmurray-273x300.jpg 273w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/aaronmurray-50x54.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAaron Murray was the first in a run of SEC quarterbacks drafted on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing his college career at Georgia, Murray entered the NFL Draft this year as the SEC&#8217;s all-time leading passer but fell to the fifth round as teams had concerns about his arm strength, size and injury history.  Murray suffered a torn ACL to end his college career in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In the fifth round Murray had his name called by the Kansas City Chiefs. There he will compete with Chase Daniel and Tyler Bray for the backup spot behind Alex Smith.<\/p>\n<p>At 6&#8217;0 and 207 pounds Murray has drawn some comparisons to Seattle Seahawks starter Russell Wilson. Only time will tell how accurate those comparisons are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Murray was the first in a run of SEC quarterbacks drafted on Saturday. After finishing his college career at Georgia, Murray entered the NFL Draft this year as the SEC&#8217;s all-time leading passer but fell to the fifth round as teams had concerns about his arm strength, size and injury history. Murray suffered a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[738,426,104,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aaron-murray","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10209,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10207\/revisions\/10209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10207"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}