{"id":12710,"date":"2014-11-18T13:42:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T18:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12710"},"modified":"2014-11-18T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T18:46:25","slug":"steelers-waive-running-back-lagarrett-blount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/11\/18\/steelers-waive-running-back-lagarrett-blount\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers waive running back LaGarrett Blount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/lagarretteblount.jpg\" alt=\"lagarretteblount\" width=\"594\" height=\"407\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12711\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/lagarretteblount.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/lagarretteblount-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Steelers were not happy that running back LaGarrett Blount left the field early in Monday&#8217;s win.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday the Steelers announced on Twitter that they had parted ways with Blount.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>We have released running back LeGarrette Blount.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pittsburgh Steelers (@steelers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steelers\/status\/534773802303885312\">November 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Blount, 27, was playing second fiddle in the backfield to Le&#8217;Veon Bell who currently is second in the NFL in rushing yrds. While Blount has proven to be useful as a power runner with his 4.09 yards per carry the Steelers have grown tired of his trouble making ways. In 11 games he had run 65 times for 266 yrds finding the endzone twice.<\/p>\n<p>His tenure with the Steelers got off to a bad start as he and Bell were <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/08\/21\/leveon-bell-does-not-travel-with-steelers-for-third-preseaon-game\/\" title=\"Le\u2019Veon Bell does not travel with Steelers for third preseaon game\">cited for possession of marijuana<\/a> during the preseason.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/11\/18\/browns-release-running-back-ben-tate\/\" title=\"Browns release running back Ben Tate\">Ben Tate hitting the market<\/a> earlier today, Blount may find it hard to land a new job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Steelers were not happy that running back LaGarrett Blount left the field early in Monday&#8217;s win. On Tuesday the Steelers announced on Twitter that they had parted ways with Blount. We have released running back LeGarrette Blount. &mdash; Pittsburgh Steelers (@steelers) November 18, 2014 Blount, 27, was playing second fiddle in the backfield to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,216,68],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-12710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12710","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=12710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12714,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12710\/revisions\/12714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12710"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}