{"id":9286,"date":"2014-02-28T11:03:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T16:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9286"},"modified":"2014-02-28T11:03:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T16:03:37","slug":"panthers-re-sign-kicker-graham-gano-to-four-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/28\/panthers-re-sign-kicker-graham-gano-to-four-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers re-sign kicker Graham Gano to four-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9287\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9287\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/grahamgano.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/grahamgano.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/grahamgano-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/grahamgano-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Carolina Panthers have locked up kicker Graham Gano on a new four-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Gano, 27, was 24-of-27 last season adding 42 extra points. In his second season with the Panthers he was perfect beyond 50-yards making all six attempts. He also had 63 touchbacks, third most in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The special teams unit was a large part of our success last year, and we are excited to keep Graham as a part of our team,&#8221; coach Ron Rivera said in a statement. &#8220;Graham has shown range and accuracy in his field goal kicking, and his strong leg has been a weapon for us on kickoffs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers will pay Gano $12.4 million over the course of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Now all that the Panthers need to do is <a title=\"Greg Hardy and Panthers working on multi-year deal\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/28\/greg-hardy-and-panthers-working-on-multi-year-deal\/\">work out a deal<\/a> with restricted free agent Greg Hardy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Panthers have locked up kicker Graham Gano on a new four-year deal. Gano, 27, was 24-of-27 last season adding 42 extra points. In his second season with the Panthers he was perfect beyond 50-yards making all six attempts. He also had 63 touchbacks, third most in the NFL. &#8220;The special teams unit was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[126,662],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-carolina-panthers","9":"tag-graham-gano"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286","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=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}