{"id":9749,"date":"2014-03-27T22:57:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T02:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9749"},"modified":"2014-03-27T22:57:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T02:57:34","slug":"raiders-close-to-deal-with-maurice-jones-drew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/03\/27\/raiders-close-to-deal-with-maurice-jones-drew\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders close to deal with Maurice Jones-Drew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/mauricejonesdrew.jpg\" alt=\"mauricejonesdrew\" width=\"594\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7710\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/mauricejonesdrew.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/mauricejonesdrew-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/mauricejonesdrew-50x35.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Oakland Raiders are &#8220;very close&#8221; to signing free agent running back Maurice Jones-Drew. CSN&#8217;s Scott Blair reports that &#8220;all signs point to this thing getting done very soon.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Jones-Drew, 29, would give the Raiders someone to share time with the recently re-signed Darren McFadden.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Raiders&amp;src=hash\">#Raiders<\/a>, Maurice Jones Drew are very close to a deal. All signs point to this thing getting done very soon.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Scott Bair (@BairCSN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BairCSN\/statuses\/449371123562450944\">March 28, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There have not been a lot of reported interest in Jones-Drew during free agency. In 15 games last season he totaled 803 yards (3.4 average) with five touchdowns. He added 43 receptions for 314 yards. Jones-Drew is a few years removed from being one of the NFL&#8217;s elite backs but the Raiders could do worse here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland Raiders are &#8220;very close&#8221; to signing free agent running back Maurice Jones-Drew. CSN&#8217;s Scott Blair reports that &#8220;all signs point to this thing getting done very soon.&#8221; Jones-Drew, 29, would give the Raiders someone to share time with the recently re-signed Darren McFadden. #Raiders, Maurice Jones Drew are very close to a deal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,306,216,189],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-maurice-jones-drew","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-oakland-raiders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9749","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=9749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9750,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9749\/revisions\/9750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9749"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}