{"id":10034,"date":"2014-04-28T16:03:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T20:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10034"},"modified":"2014-04-28T20:40:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T00:40:12","slug":"michael-crabtree-and-49ers-working-on-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/04\/28\/michael-crabtree-and-49ers-working-on-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Crabtree and 49ers working on new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_10035\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10035\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/michaelcrabtree.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"401\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/michaelcrabtree.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/michaelcrabtree-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/michaelcrabtree-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe San Francisco 49ers have approached wide receiver Michael Crabtree about a new contract. Crabtree, much like head coach Jim Harbaugh and quarterback Colin Kaepernick, is one of many members of the 49ers in need of a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re constantly working with our guys that are becoming free agents to see what it\u2019s going to take to extend them,\u201d general manager Trent Baalke said via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/49ers\/2014\/04\/28\/49ers-and-crabtree-why-an-extension-isnt-imminent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">SF Gate<\/a>. \u201cMichael\u2019s no different. He\u2019s a darn good football player. A guy that we drafted. And as everyone in this room knows, we are always going to try to keep our own guys rather than go out in free agency and pay guys that haven\u2019t invested themselves in this place like these guys have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers and Crabtree may want to work out a deal but the wide receiver is just 11 months away from surgery for a torn achilles. He may want to see what he can do in the 2014 season before re-signing.<\/p>\n<p>During five regular season games last season Crabtree caught 19 passes for 284 yarsd and a touchdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers have approached wide receiver Michael Crabtree about a new contract. Crabtree, much like head coach Jim Harbaugh and quarterback Colin Kaepernick, is one of many members of the 49ers in need of a new contract. \u201cWe\u2019re constantly working with our guys that are becoming free agents to see what it\u2019s going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[301,216,209],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-10034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-michael-crabtree","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10046,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034\/revisions\/10046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10034"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}