{"id":14255,"date":"2015-04-05T12:42:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T16:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=14255"},"modified":"2015-04-05T12:42:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T16:42:18","slug":"michael-crabtree-turned-down-3-million-from-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/04\/05\/michael-crabtree-turned-down-3-million-from-dolphins\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Crabtree turned down $3 million from Dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/05\/michaelcrabtree.jpg\" alt=\"michaelcrabtree\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3736\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/05\/michaelcrabtree.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/05\/michaelcrabtree-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/05\/michaelcrabtree-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nMichael Crabtree left his visity with the Miami Dolphins without a contract. It was not for a lack of talking though as the Miami Herald reports that the former San Francisco 49ers wide receiver was offered &#8220;close to $3 million&#8221; before he left.<\/p>\n<p>Crabtree turned down the Dolphins offer and is said to be seeking a deal that will pay him $4.5 million next season. He will now head to the Oakland Raiders looking for a contract. <\/p>\n<p>There is no shortage of big time prospects in the NFL Draft so Crabtree may be forced to re-adjust his contract demands. Already the Jacksonville Jaguars have distanced themselves from him in contract talks.<\/p>\n<p>Crabtree is coming off a full season in which he caught 68 passes for 698 yards and four touchdowns. In parts of six NFL seasons he has topped the 1,000 yard mark just once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Crabtree left his visity with the Miami Dolphins without a contract. It was not for a lack of talking though as the Miami Herald reports that the former San Francisco 49ers wide receiver was offered &#8220;close to $3 million&#8221; before he left. Crabtree turned down the Dolphins offer and is said to be seeking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,301,216,209],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-14255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-michael-crabtree","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-san-francisco-49ers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14255","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=14255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14256,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14255\/revisions\/14256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14255"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}