{"id":14206,"date":"2015-02-26T19:44:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T00:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=14206"},"modified":"2015-02-26T19:44:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T00:44:19","slug":"falcons-release-steven-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/02\/26\/falcons-release-steven-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons release Steven Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/stevenjackson.jpg\" alt=\"stevenjackson\" width=\"594\" height=\"434\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7486\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/stevenjackson.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/stevenjackson-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/stevenjackson-50x36.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Falcons have released running back Steven Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson, 31, has been targeted for release since the season came to an end. His years of being a top tier running back have long passed as his yards per carry dropped to 3.6 during his time with the Falcons.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons will now turn over their backfield duties to Devonta Freeman but his time may be short-lived as they will undoubtedly target a replacement in the draft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Falcons have released running back Steven Jackson. Jackson, 31, has been targeted for release since the season came to an end. His years of being a top tier running back have long passed as his yards per carry dropped to 3.6 during his time with the Falcons. The Falcons will now turn over their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[56,426,216,19],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-14206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-falcons","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-steven-jackson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206","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=14206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14207,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions\/14207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14206"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}