{"id":4670,"date":"2013-08-21T21:24:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T01:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2013-08-21T21:24:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T01:24:06","slug":"cowboys-sign-lb-sean-lee-to-six-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/08\/21\/cowboys-sign-lb-sean-lee-to-six-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys sign LB Sean Lee to six-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4671\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4671\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4671\" alt=\"seanlee\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/seanlee.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/seanlee.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/seanlee-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/seanlee-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>The Dallas Cowboys have reached an agreement with middle linebacker Sean Lee on a six-year contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>Lee was entering the final year of his rookie contract. While Lee has shown the ability to be the leader of the Cowboys defense he has a lengthy history of injuries. Lee suffered a torn ACL during his final year at Penn State in 2008.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Congrats to SEAN LEE for agreeing to a 6 year extension with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallascowboys\">@dallascowboys<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike McCartney (@MikeMcCartney7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeMcCartney7\/statuses\/370307017421762561\">August 21, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last year Lee missed the final ten games of the season with a toe injury. Over his first three years Lee has missed 13 games.<\/p>\n<p>Lee&#8217;s new deal is for six years and $42 million though the 2019 season. It includes $16.1 million in guaranteed money, and includes incentives which could push it to $51 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys have reached an agreement with middle linebacker Sean Lee on a six-year contract extension. Lee was entering the final year of his rookie contract. While Lee has shown the ability to be the leader of the Cowboys defense he has a lengthy history of injuries. Lee suffered a torn ACL during his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[35,91],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-4670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys","9":"tag-sean-lee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670","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=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}