{"id":11762,"date":"2014-09-30T22:07:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T02:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11762"},"modified":"2014-09-30T22:07:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T02:07:06","slug":"lions-work-out-free-agent-running-backs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/09\/30\/lions-work-out-free-agent-running-backs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions work out free agent running backs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_11763\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11763\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/tashardchoice.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/tashardchoice.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/tashardchoice-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAfter placing Montell Owens on injured reserve with a hamstring injury, the Detroit Lions worked out a pair of running backs on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tashard Choice and Alex Green both got a look from the Lions as the team scours the free agent mark for fall back options down the road. <\/p>\n<p>Choice, 29, has appeared in 88 career games, including three last season with the Indianapolis Colts. He owns a 4.2 career average on 372 attempts for a total of 1,579 yards and 10 touchdowns though the bulk of that was done during his first three years in the league from 2008-2010 when he was a member of the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>Wide receivers Damian Williams and Ramses Barden also got workouts with the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After placing Montell Owens on injured reserve with a hamstring injury, the Detroit Lions worked out a pair of running backs on Tuesday. Tashard Choice and Alex Green both got a look from the Lions as the team scours the free agent mark for fall back options down the road. Choice, 29, has appeared in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[151,426,216,830],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-11762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-detroit-lions","tag-front","tag-nfl","tag-tashard-choice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11762","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=11762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11764,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11762\/revisions\/11764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11762"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}