{"id":9448,"date":"2014-03-10T11:44:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T15:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9448"},"modified":"2014-03-10T11:44:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T15:44:29","slug":"patriots-give-two-year-deal-to-michael-hoomanawanui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/03\/10\/patriots-give-two-year-deal-to-michael-hoomanawanui\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots give two-year deal to Michael Hoomanawanui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/michaelhoomanawanui.jpg\" alt=\"michaelhoomanawanui\" width=\"594\" height=\"409\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9449\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/michaelhoomanawanui.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/michaelhoomanawanui-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/michaelhoomanawanui-50x34.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe New England Patriots and tight end Michael Hoomanawanui have reached an agreement on a new two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Hoomanawanui, 25, caught 12 passes for 136 yards and a touchdown. Those numbers came with Rob Gronkowski missing nine games and Aaron Hernandez in jail. They represent the high end of Hoomanawanui&#8217;s output and the Patriots are expected to pursue additional options at tight end in the draft and free agency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>TE Michael Hoomanawanui will re-sign with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Patriots&amp;src=hash\">#Patriots<\/a>, per a league source.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rand Getlin (@Rand_Getlin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rand_Getlin\/statuses\/443040223488778240\">March 10, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hoomanawanui has spent two seasons with the Patriots and spent two seasons with the St. Louis Rams prior to that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Patriots and tight end Michael Hoomanawanui have reached an agreement on a new two-year contract. Hoomanawanui, 25, caught 12 passes for 136 yards and a touchdown. Those numbers came with Rob Gronkowski missing nine games and Aaron Hernandez in jail. They represent the high end of Hoomanawanui&#8217;s output and the Patriots are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-9448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9448","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=9448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9448"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}