{"id":9325,"date":"2014-03-02T21:38:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T02:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9325"},"modified":"2014-03-02T21:38:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T02:38:26","slug":"texans-still-expected-to-draft-blake-bortles-at-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/03\/02\/texans-still-expected-to-draft-blake-bortles-at-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans still expected to draft Blake Bortles at No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Houston Texans are still expected to select UCF quarterback Blake Bortles with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft. It was a month ago that Bortles began to emerge<\/a> as a potential top pick by the Texans.<\/p>\n

John McClain of the Houston Chronicle says there is no way the Texans do not select a quarterback with the first overall draft.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been saying 4 weeks and I will say until I believe differently, but the Texans are taking a quarterback,” tweeted McClain. “I’ll be shocked if they don’t.”<\/p>\n

I’ve been saying 4 weeks and I will say until I believe differently, but the Texans are taking a quarterback. I’ll be shocked if they don’t.<\/p>\n

\u2014 John McClain (@McClain_on_NFL) March 3, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Bortles has been creating some separation lately from the other top quarterbacks in the draft. Teddy Bridgewater appears to be at No. 2 now with Johnny Manziel dropping lately with more and more scouts questioning his size and skill-set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Houston Texans are still expected to select UCF quarterback Blake Bortles with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft. It was a month ago that Bortles began to emerge as a potential top pick by the Texans. John McClain of the Houston Chronicle says there is no way the Texans do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[639,426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-9325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-blake-bortles","tag-front","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325","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=9325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9325"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}