{"id":3170,"date":"2013-03-15T22:34:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T02:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2013-03-15T22:39:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T02:39:15","slug":"greg-jennings-signs-contract-with-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/03\/15\/greg-jennings-signs-contract-with-vikings\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Jennings felt wanted, signs contract with Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/gregjennings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3140\" alt=\"gregjennings\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/gregjennings.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/gregjennings.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/gregjennings-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/gregjennings-50x34.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greg Jennings and the Minnesota Vikings have reached a five-year deal worth $47.5 million. Jennings will be guaranteed $18 million under terms of the contract.<\/p>\n<p>The annual salary of $9.5 million makes Jennings the NFL&#8217;s seventh-highest paid wide receiver. He pulls in the second largest salary of free agent receivers this year behind Mike Wallace.<\/p>\n<p>Green Bay had re-sought the services of Jennings in recent days but never matched the Vikings offer.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_5_0_1_1363401478937_2794\">&#8220;No. 1, I definitely wanted to know that they wanted me,&#8221; Jennings said at his introductory press conference aired on NFL Network. &#8220;I wanted to feel that they wanted me to be a part of what they were doing, and a part of their future. I got that feeling early and I got that feeling quite often.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Leslie Frazier, general manager Rick Spielman and Jared Allen were part of a contingent that met with Jennings Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>House for Sale: <\/strong><a title=\"Photos: Green Bay Packers Greg Jennings house is for sale\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/01\/29\/photos-green-bay-packers-greg-jennings-house-is-for-sale\/\">Jennings lists Green Bay area house for sale<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Minnesota the signing of Jennings immediately replaces Percy Harvin who was traded to Seattle. His addition will be a huge plus for quarterback Christian Ponder.<\/p>\n<p>Jennings had 25 catches for 280 yards and four TDs over Green Bay&#8217;s final four games, including the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Jennings and the Minnesota Vikings have reached a five-year deal worth $47.5 million. Jennings will be guaranteed $18 million under terms of the contract. The annual salary of $9.5 million makes Jennings the NFL&#8217;s seventh-highest paid wide receiver. He pulls in the second largest salary of free agent receivers this year behind Mike Wallace. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[221],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-3170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-greg-jennings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170","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=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}