{"id":11229,"date":"2014-08-30T20:19:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T00:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11229"},"modified":"2014-08-30T20:20:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T00:20:19","slug":"christian-ponder-makes-vikings-roster-kyle-orton-to-earn-5-million-with-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/08\/30\/christian-ponder-makes-vikings-roster-kyle-orton-to-earn-5-million-with-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Ponder makes Vikings roster, Kyle Orton to earn $5 million with Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6606\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6606\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/christianponder.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/christianponder.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/christianponder-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/christianponder-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With one year left on his rookie contract guaranteeing him $1.76 million, Christian Ponder has made the 53-man roster of the Minnesota Vikings to start the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings have soured on Ponder shuffling him to the bench last season while then re-signing Matt Cassel and drafting Teddy Bridgewater at the end of the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Ponder has not been given many chances to work with the first team offense and ideally the Vikings will try to move him before the season starts.<\/p>\n<p>In 36 career games over three seasons Ponder has comleted 60.2-percent of his passes for 6,436 yards while tossing 38 touchdowns and 34 interceptions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle Orton earning $5 million this season<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How badly did the Buffalo Bills want to improve their depth at quarterback? Enough to spend $5 million while bringing 31-year-old journeyman Kyle Orton out of retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Orton will earn as much as Josh McCown landed from Tampa Bay. This should be seen as a sign that the Bills trust in E.J. Manuel has run out. Manuel will start the season for the Bills but the team could quickly make a switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With one year left on his rookie contract guaranteeing him $1.76 million, Christian Ponder has made the 53-man roster of the Minnesota Vikings to start the season. The Vikings have soured on Ponder shuffling him to the bench last season while then re-signing Matt Cassel and drafting Teddy Bridgewater at the end of the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-11229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229","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=11229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11231,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions\/11231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11229"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}