{"id":9423,"date":"2014-03-08T19:35:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T00:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9423"},"modified":"2014-03-08T19:35:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T00:35:51","slug":"packers-reach-four-year-deal-with-sam-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/03\/08\/packers-reach-four-year-deal-with-sam-shields\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers reach four-year deal with Sam Shields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/samshields.jpg\" alt=\"samshields\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9424\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/samshields.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/samshields-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/samshields-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Green Bay Packers and cornerback Sam Shields have reached terms on a four-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Shields, 26, will receive $39 million over the course of the contract according to Mike Florio of <a href=\"http:\/\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2014\/03\/08\/sam-shields-packers-agree-on-four-year-39-million-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pro Football Talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal, $12.5 million of that total will be paid via a signing bonus. He will be paid a $2.5 million salary in 2014. Shields will earn $6 million in 2015 and $9 million in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Shields recorded 61 tackles, defended 16 passes and intercepted four passes in 2013. He has been a member of the Packers since 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Bay Packers and cornerback Sam Shields have reached terms on a four-year deal. Shields, 26, will receive $39 million over the course of the contract according to Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. As part of the deal, $12.5 million of that total will be paid via a signing bonus. He will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,153,216,674],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-9423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-nfl","tag-sam-shields"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423","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=9423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}