{"id":9226,"date":"2014-02-22T15:20:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T20:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9226"},"modified":"2014-02-22T15:20:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T20:20:35","slug":"bills-willing-to-use-franchise-tag-on-jairus-byrd-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/22\/bills-willing-to-use-franchise-tag-on-jairus-byrd-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills willing to use franchise tag on Jairus Byrd again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4651\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/jairusbyrd.jpg\" alt=\"jairus byrd\" width=\"594\" height=\"440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4651\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/jairusbyrd.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/jairusbyrd-300x222.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/jairusbyrd-50x37.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Buffalo Bills are willing to use the franchise tag on safety Jairus Byrd for the second year in a row reports NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport.<\/p>\n<p>While the Bills have been trying to re-sign Byrd they could always use the tag on him for a second straight year. Doing so would earn Byrd a salary around $8.3 million. It could give the two sides a chance to work out an extension.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Bills&amp;src=hash\">#Bills<\/a> still want to do a deal with S Jairus Byrd. If not, I\u2019m told they plan to franchise tag him. Won\u2019t let him get away for nothing<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/statuses\/437296003214233601\">February 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Byrd is believed to be seeking a salary of $8 million annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills are willing to use the franchise tag on safety Jairus Byrd for the second year in a row reports NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport. While the Bills have been trying to re-sign Byrd they could always use the tag on him for a second straight year. Doing so would earn Byrd a salary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[131,362],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-buffalo-bills","9":"tag-jairus-byrd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226","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=9226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9226"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}