{"id":11304,"date":"2014-09-03T11:28:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T15:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11304"},"modified":"2014-09-03T11:29:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T15:29:12","slug":"michael-sam-signed-to-cowboys-practice-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/09\/03\/michael-sam-signed-to-cowboys-practice-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Sam signed to Cowboys practice squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_11201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11201\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/michaelsam.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"425\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/michaelsam.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/michaelsam-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nMichael Sam has been signed to the practice squad of the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>Sam, the 2013 SEC Defensive Player of the Year, was drafted in the Sixth-round by the St. Louis Rams but failed to make the teams 53-man roster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a roller coaster this past week, but I\u2019m happy where I\u2019m at now,\u201d Sam said via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2741521\/It-s-great-heading-home-NFL-s-openly-gay-player-Michael-Sam-set-join-Dallas-Cowboys-just-days-sensationally-dropped-St-Louis-Rams.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mail Online<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m just looking forward to being a Cowboy. My focus is on making the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Sam was not able to stick as a member of a Rams team which has tremendous depth at defensive line he offers an improvement on a Cowboys defense which is thin across the board.<\/p>\n<p>Sa recorded three sacks and 11 tackles this preseason. He is not expected to play in Week 1 but when he does he will become the first openly gay player to play in a regular season game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Sam has been signed to the practice squad of the Dallas Cowboys. Sam, the 2013 SEC Defensive Player of the Year, was drafted in the Sixth-round by the St. Louis Rams but failed to make the teams 53-man roster. \u201cIt\u2019s been a roller coaster this past week, but I\u2019m happy where I\u2019m at now,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[35,426,739,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-11304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-michael-sam","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11304","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=11304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11306,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11304\/revisions\/11306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11304"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}