{"id":9293,"date":"2014-02-28T13:44:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T18:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9293"},"modified":"2014-02-28T13:44:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T18:44:32","slug":"ravens-sign-dennis-pitta-to-five-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/28\/ravens-sign-dennis-pitta-to-five-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens sign Dennis Pitta to five-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7200\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/dennispitta.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/dennispitta.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/dennispitta-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/dennispitta-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Baltimore Ravens will not need to use the franchise tag on tight end Dennis Pitta.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday the two sides reached agreement on a five-year extension worth $32 million. The deal will be worth $6.4 million a season and places Pitta in the top half of tight ends in contract value.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Dennis Pitta&#39;s five-year contract is worth $32 million, according to a league source.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Wilson (@RavensInsider) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RavensInsider\/statuses\/439460215608856576\">February 28, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The re-signing of Pitta will allow the Ravens to focus on offensive lineman Eugene Monroe.<\/p>\n<p>Pitta\u00a0missed the start of the 2013 season after suffering a hip injury. He came back for the teams final four games and caught 20 passes for 169 yards and a touchdown. Joe Flacco will be relieved to have Pitta as a target for the 2014 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Ravens will not need to use the franchise tag on tight end Dennis Pitta. On Friday the two sides reached agreement on a five-year extension worth $32 million. The deal will be worth $6.4 million a season and places Pitta in the top half of tight ends in contract value. Dennis Pitta&#39;s five-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[166,338,426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-baltimore-ravens","9":"tag-dennis-pitta","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293","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=9293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9293"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}