{"id":9414,"date":"2014-03-07T16:57:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T21:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9414"},"modified":"2014-03-07T16:57:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T21:57:52","slug":"cardinals-sign-john-carlson-to-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/03\/07\/cardinals-sign-john-carlson-to-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals sign John Carlson to two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7697\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/johncarlson.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7697\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/johncarlson.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/johncarlson-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/johncarlson-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Arizona Cardinals have signed tight end John Carlson to a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson, 29, has dealt with concussion concerns during his NFL career. He was limited to just 32 catches for 344 yards and a touchdown across 13 games for the Minnesota Vikings last season. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Cardinals&amp;src=hash\">#Cardinals<\/a> are paying TE John Carlson $4.65M over two years, according to a source.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/statuses\/442045500074631168\">March 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The two-year deal for Carlson will pay him $4.65 million.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how Carlson will fit in with the Cardinals current game plan since he is not much of an option as a blocker. Perhaps Bruce Arians will get more vertical with the tight end position this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Cardinals have signed tight end John Carlson to a two-year deal. Carlson, 29, has dealt with concussion concerns during his NFL career. He was limited to just 32 catches for 344 yards and a touchdown across 13 games for the Minnesota Vikings last season. The #Cardinals are paying TE John Carlson $4.65M over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-9414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414","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=9414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9414"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}