{"id":8996,"date":"2014-02-04T17:12:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T22:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8996"},"modified":"2014-02-04T17:12:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T22:12:44","slug":"terrance-williams-set-to-step-up-as-cowboys-no-2-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/04\/terrance-williams-set-to-step-up-as-cowboys-no-2-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrance Williams set to step up as Cowboys No. 2 receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8997\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8997\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/terrancewilliams.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"498\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8997\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/terrancewilliams.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/terrancewilliams-300x251.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/terrancewilliams-50x41.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nWith Miles Austin and his $5.5 million against the cap expected to be jettisoned the Dallas Cowboys appear ready to move Terrance Williams into the No. 2 wide receiver role says ESPN&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/dallas\/cowboys\/post\/_\/id\/4724139\/terrance-williams-is-ready-to-take-over?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Calvin Watkins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Williams had good and bad moments in 2013. Overall the 24-year-old finished his rookie season with 44 catches for 736 yards and five touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>With Scott Linehan taking over the play caller duties in Dallas, there&#8217;s some who believe that the Cowboys will become even more pass happy. If so Williams could be in store for a big year as an offensive play maker after he caught 12 passes for 20 or more yards last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys could bank on Williams progressing in much the same way as Dez Bryant did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Miles Austin and his $5.5 million against the cap expected to be jettisoned the Dallas Cowboys appear ready to move Terrance Williams into the No. 2 wide receiver role says ESPN&#8217;s Calvin Watkins. Williams had good and bad moments in 2013. Overall the 24-year-old finished his rookie season with 44 catches for 736 yards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[35,640],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-8996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-terrance-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996","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=8996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8996"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}