{"id":12704,"date":"2014-11-18T12:36:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T17:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12704"},"modified":"2014-11-18T12:36:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T17:36:55","slug":"colts-sign-josh-cribbs-panthers-cut-jason-avant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/11\/18\/colts-sign-josh-cribbs-panthers-cut-jason-avant\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts sign Josh Cribbs, Panthers cut Jason Avant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/joshuacribbs.jpg\" alt=\"joshuacribbs\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12594\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/joshuacribbs.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/joshuacribbs-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nJosh Cribbs is back in the NFL. On Tuesday the Colts signed the veteran return man to a contract after he missed nearly all of last year while being on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>The Colts worked out Cribbs last week so the signing is not a complete surprise. He had attracted little interest on the free agent market since being let go by the Jets.<\/p>\n<p>Cribbs is expected to spell the end of Griff Whalen in the return game for the Colts. He is tied for the most all-time kick off returns for touchdowns with eight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panther cut Avant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Carolina the Panthers have released wide receiver Jason Avant.<\/p>\n<p>Avant, 31, has lost speed and is nothing more than a possession receiver at this point in his career. On the season he had 20 catches for 201 yards and a touchdown. <\/p>\n<p>Philly Brown will now take over as the Panthers No. 3 receiver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Cribbs is back in the NFL. On Tuesday the Colts signed the veteran return man to a contract after he missed nearly all of last year while being on injured reserve. The Colts worked out Cribbs last week so the signing is not a complete surprise. He had attracted little interest on the free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[706,867,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-12704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-jason-avant","9":"tag-joshua-cribbs","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704","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=12704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12706,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704\/revisions\/12706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12704"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}