{"id":3674,"date":"2013-05-18T10:08:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T14:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2013-05-18T10:08:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T14:08:34","slug":"bears-sign-first-round-pick-kyle-long-to-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/05\/18\/bears-sign-first-round-pick-kyle-long-to-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears sign first-round pick Kyle Long to contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3675\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3675\" alt=\"kylelong\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/05\/kylelong.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/05\/kylelong.jpg 640w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/05\/kylelong-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/05\/kylelong-50x28.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: US-Presswire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Chicago Bears have signed their first-round pick from the 2013 NFL Draft. Kyle Long and the Bears have agreed on a four-year contract. Long was the 20th pick of the draft.<\/p>\n<p>Long is expected to start training came as a right guard but the athletic lineman could also be an option at left guard and right tackle. The Bears were initially criticized for their pick of Long but at-least two other teams were considering drafting him in the first-round.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a tough first season for Long as he will have to match-up against Ndamukong Suh and B.J. Raji twice.<\/p>\n<p>The total value of Long&#8217;s deal is roughly $8.2 million according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/football\/bears\/chi-kyle-long-chicago-bears-20130517,0,2345481.story\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bears have signed their first-round pick from the 2013 NFL Draft. Kyle Long and the Bears have agreed on a four-year contract. Long was the 20th pick of the draft. Long is expected to start training came as a right guard but the athletic lineman could also be an option at left guard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[36,298],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-3674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-bears","9":"tag-kyle-long"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674","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=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}