{"id":3064,"date":"2013-03-07T10:21:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T15:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2013-03-07T10:25:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T15:25:24","slug":"david-akers-released-by-49ers-but-plans-to-play-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/03\/07\/david-akers-released-by-49ers-but-plans-to-play-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"David Akers released by 49ers but plans to play in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3065\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3065\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3065\" alt=\"davidakers\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/davidakers.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/davidakers.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/davidakers-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/davidakers-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>David Akers does not plan to retire despite being released by the San Francisco 49ers. Once ne of the NFL&#8217;s premier kickers, Akers was shaky at-best last season but the 49ers waited until after the season to cut ties with him.<\/p>\n<p>Due $3 million in base salary the 49ers were not going to pay a kicker who made just 69% of his attempts last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 49ers would like to thank David for his service, dedication and leadership over the past two years,&#8221; 49ers general manager Trent Baalke said in the press release announcing the move. &#8220;He is a true professional who represented himself and this organization with class. We wish him, and his family, all the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Akers is not planning to retire according to his agent Jerrold Colton, via USA Today.<\/p>\n<p>According to Colton, Akers had another &#8220;minor surgical procedure&#8221; within the last month to further address the lingering hernia issue that plagued him throughout 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Akers does not plan to retire despite being released by the San Francisco 49ers. Once ne of the NFL&#8217;s premier kickers, Akers was shaky at-best last season but the 49ers waited until after the season to cut ties with him. Due $3 million in base salary the 49ers were not going to pay a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-3064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","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=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}