{"id":3934,"date":"2013-06-09T12:41:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T16:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=3934"},"modified":"2013-06-09T12:41:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T16:41:09","slug":"jamaal-charles-excited-about-new-chiefs-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/06\/09\/jamaal-charles-excited-about-new-chiefs-offense\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaal Charles excited about new Chiefs offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3935\" alt=\"jamaalcharles\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/06\/jamaalcharles.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/06\/jamaalcharles.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/06\/jamaalcharles-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/06\/jamaalcharles-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jamaal Charles was drafted in the third round five years ago to backup Larry Johnson. Johnson&#8217;s NFL career quickly faded and now Charles is in a similar position after the Chiefs drafted Knile Davis in the third round of April&#8217;s Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Charles is not worried about his teammate instead focusing on the positives of new head coach Andy Reid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis offense might be the best thing that ever happened to me,\u201d Charles said to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/2013\/06\/08\/4281000\/charles-embraces-competition-from.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Star<\/a>. \u201cI think this offense will get me open. They\u2019re going to throw me the ball more. I think I\u2019ll continue to stack Pro Bowls on Pro Bowls if I can stay healthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charles immediately becomes a huge pass catching threat out of the backfield with the addition of Reid and offensive coordinator Doug Peterson.<\/p>\n<p>Previously Charles has a career high of 45 catches in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Charles ran for 1,509 yards last season while catching 35 balls and finding the endzone for seven touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaal Charles was drafted in the third round five years ago to backup Larry Johnson. Johnson&#8217;s NFL career quickly faded and now Charles is in a similar position after the Chiefs drafted Knile Davis in the third round of April&#8217;s Draft. Charles is not worried about his teammate instead focusing on the positives of new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[164,104],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-3934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-jamaal-charles","9":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934","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=3934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}