{"id":4586,"date":"2013-08-14T22:04:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T02:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=4586"},"modified":"2013-08-14T22:13:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T02:13:31","slug":"former-heisman-qb-troy-smith-heads-to-the-cfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/08\/14\/former-heisman-qb-troy-smith-heads-to-the-cfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Heisman QB Troy Smith heads to the CFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4587\" alt=\"troysmith\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/troysmith.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/troysmith.jpg 590w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/troysmith-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/troysmith-50x37.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Troy Smith has signed a two-year deal with the CFL&#8217;s Montreal Alouettes.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, 29, has not played in the NFL since the 2010 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Montreal Alouettes sign quarterback Troy Smith to 2-year deal. He won Heisman Trophy with Ohio State in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Nicholson (@ByJohnNicholson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByJohnNicholson\/statuses\/367821421705064449\">August 15, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A former Heisman winner at Ohio State, Smith never had success at the NFL level spending four seasons and making just eight starts. Smith joined the Baltimore Ravens as a fifth round pick in 2007 and spent time as the backup to Joe Flacco before playing the 2010 season in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010 Smith started six games for the 49ers but managed just 1,176 yards passing with five touchdowns and four interceptions while completing 50.3 percent of his passes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troy Smith has signed a two-year deal with the CFL&#8217;s Montreal Alouettes. Smith, 29, has not played in the NFL since the 2010 season. Montreal Alouettes sign quarterback Troy Smith to 2-year deal. He won Heisman Trophy with Ohio State in 2006. &mdash; John Nicholson (@ByJohnNicholson) August 15, 2013 A former Heisman winner at Ohio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[356],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-4586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-troy-smith"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586","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=4586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}