{"id":10724,"date":"2014-07-14T17:02:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T21:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10724"},"modified":"2014-07-14T17:02:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T21:02:15","slug":"jimmy-graham-appealing-tight-end-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/07\/14\/jimmy-graham-appealing-tight-end-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Graham appealing tight end ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5981\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/jimmygraham.jpg\" alt=\"jimmygraham\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/jimmygraham.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/jimmygraham-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/jimmygraham-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nJimmy Graham will appeal an arbitrator&#8217;s decision that he should be franchise tagged as a tight end.<\/p>\n<p>If independent arbitrator Stephen Burbank&#8217;s ruling is upheld then Graham, 27, would earn $7.05 million during the 2014 season as a tight end instead of the $12.3 he would have made as a wide receiver.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Saints?src=hash\">#Saints<\/a> TE Jimmy Graham has officially appealed the ruling that stated he\u2019ll be paid as a franchise-tagged TE not WR, source said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/statuses\/488784865136238593\">July 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The decision of Graham to appeal the ruling would suggest that he and the Saints are not close to long-term deal.<\/p>\n<p>Graham caught 86 passes for 1,215 yards and 16 touchdowns during the 2013 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Graham will appeal an arbitrator&#8217;s decision that he should be franchise tagged as a tight end. If independent arbitrator Stephen Burbank&#8217;s ruling is upheld then Graham, 27, would earn $7.05 million during the 2014 season as a tight end instead of the $12.3 he would have made as a wide receiver. #Saints TE Jimmy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-10724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724","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=10724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10725,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724\/revisions\/10725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10724"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}