{"id":11015,"date":"2014-08-19T23:33:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T03:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11015"},"modified":"2014-08-19T23:33:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T03:33:48","slug":"brandon-lloyd-fitting-in-with-49ers-could-crack-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/08\/19\/brandon-lloyd-fitting-in-with-49ers-could-crack-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Lloyd fitting in with 49ers, could crack roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_11016\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11016\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/brandonlloyd.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/brandonlloyd.jpg 630w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/brandonlloyd-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe San Francisco 49ers signed Brandon Lloyd to a contract for the veteran minimum this offseason in an effort to see if the 33-year-old has anything in the tank.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far Lloyd has fit in with the 49ers and bonded with Anquan Boldin reports NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport.<\/p>\n<p>While Lloyd is nothing more than a depth chart filler for the 49ers right now he coul d still be a valuable part should the 49ers be beset with injures.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Sounds like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/49ers?src=hash\">#49ers<\/a> WR Brandon Lloyd has a real good chance to make the team. He\u2019s fitting in, which is just as good news. Bonded with Boldin<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/statuses\/501902475721719808\">August 20, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lloyd sat out all of last season. He caught one pass for seven yards in the 49ers 34-0 loss to Denver on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd caught 74 passes for 911 yards and four touchdowns during the 2012 season while a member of the New England Patriots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers signed Brandon Lloyd to a contract for the veteran minimum this offseason in an effort to see if the 33-year-old has anything in the tank. Thus far Lloyd has fit in with the 49ers and bonded with Anquan Boldin reports NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport. While Lloyd is nothing more than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[795,216,209],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-11015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-bradon-lloyd","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11015","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=11015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11017,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11015\/revisions\/11017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11015"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}