{"id":12185,"date":"2014-10-21T15:41:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T19:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12185"},"modified":"2014-10-21T15:41:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T19:41:32","slug":"cowboys-waive-michael-sam-from-practice-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/10\/21\/cowboys-waive-michael-sam-from-practice-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys waive Michael Sam from practice squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_11311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11311\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/michaelsam.jpg\" alt=\"AP\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/michaelsam.jpg 660w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/michaelsam-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AP<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Dallas Cowboys have waived defensive end Michael Sam according to the teams official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallascowboys.com\/news\/2014\/10\/21\/cowboys-waive-michael-sam-practice-squad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sam joined the Cowboys on Sept. 3 and spen the first seven weeks of the season on the teams 10-man practice squad. Sam never made it to the Cowboys 53-man game day roster.<\/p>\n<p>The first openly-gay player in the NFL, Sam was a seventh round pick of the St. Louis Rams but was unable to make their roster and was cut at the end of the preseason. <\/p>\n<p>Sam&#8217;s practice squad spot will go to linebacker Troy Davis who worked out for the Cowboys on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first substantial report on Sam since the Cowboys signed him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys have waived defensive end Michael Sam according to the teams official website. Sam joined the Cowboys on Sept. 3 and spen the first seven weeks of the season on the teams 10-man practice squad. Sam never made it to the Cowboys 53-man game day roster. The first openly-gay player in the NFL, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[35,426,739,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-12185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-michael-sam","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12185","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=12185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12187,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12185\/revisions\/12187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12185"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}