{"id":10309,"date":"2014-05-15T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10309"},"modified":"2014-05-15T10:18:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:18:23","slug":"browns-sign-wr-earl-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/05\/15\/browns-sign-wr-earl-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns sign WR Earl Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4924\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/earlbennett.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"386\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4924\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/earlbennett.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/earlbennett-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/earlbennett-50x32.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Cleveland Browns have signed wide receiver Earl Bennett to a contract.<\/p>\n<p>With Josh Gordon facing a suspension and Nate Burleson re-injuring his arm the Browns are again thin at receiver.<\/p>\n<p>While Bennett does not have the skill set to be a game changer he could offer many of the same things that the Browns liked about Burleson. He was let go by the Bears recently after refusing to take a paycut.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Browns&amp;src=hash\">#Browns<\/a> sign Earl Bennett, formerly of Chicago. Not a game changer, but solid guy nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jake Jones (@JakeJonesKFBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JakeJonesKFBB\/statuses\/466770639462748160\">May 15, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script\n\nBennett, a 2008 third-round choice from Vanderbilt, has 185 career receptions for 2,277 yards and 12 TDs. Last season he had 32 receptions for 243 yards and four touchdowns.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Browns have signed wide receiver Earl Bennett to a contract. With Josh Gordon facing a suspension and Nate Burleson re-injuring his arm the Browns are again thin at receiver. While Bennett does not have the skill set to be a game changer he could offer many of the same things that the Browns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[139,94,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"tag-cleveland-browns","9":"tag-earl-bennett","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309","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=10309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10310,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309\/revisions\/10310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10309"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}