{"id":10605,"date":"2014-06-14T23:20:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T03:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10605"},"modified":"2014-06-14T23:20:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T03:20:36","slug":"vince-young-retires-from-nfl-would-consider-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/06\/14\/vince-young-retires-from-nfl-would-consider-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Vince Young retires from NFL, would consider comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/vinceyoungpackers.jpg\" alt=\"vinceyoungpackers\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/vinceyoungpackers.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/vinceyoungpackers-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/vinceyoungpackers-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nVince Young has retired from the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>The news is hardly news as Young has not played in a regular season game since the 2011 season. He announced his retirement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m retired,&#8221; Young told NFL.com. <\/p>\n<p>Young did leave the door open for a return though adding, &#8220;Unless we get a great opportunity, something guaranteed &#8230; I&#8217;ve already started moving forward. &#8230; It&#8217;s definitely official, I think, in my book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last season the Green Bay Packers cut Young in the preseason. He was part of the Browns three-day minicamp but found himself released days after the team selected Johnny Manziel.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 3 pick in 2006 by the Tennessee Titans, Young spent parts of six seasons with the Tennessee Titans and later the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Young threw for 8,964 yards and 46 touchdowns during his NFL career and has accepted a position with the Texans Longhorns with whom he won a National Championship in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vince Young has retired from the NFL. The news is hardly news as Young has not played in a regular season game since the 2011 season. He announced his retirement on Saturday. &#8220;I&#8217;m retired,&#8221; Young told NFL.com. Young did leave the door open for a return though adding, &#8220;Unless we get a great opportunity, something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[216,243],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-10605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-nfl","tag-vince-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605","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=10605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10606,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605\/revisions\/10606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10605"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}