{"id":14218,"date":"2015-03-05T18:01:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T23:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=14218"},"modified":"2015-03-05T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T23:01:19","slug":"maurice-jones-drew-retires-from-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/03\/05\/maurice-jones-drew-retires-from-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Jones-Drew retires from NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/03\/mauricejonesdrew.jpg\" alt=\"mauricejonesdrew\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/03\/mauricejonesdrew.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/03\/mauricejonesdrew-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nTwo down seasons in a row have forced running back Maurice Jones-Drew to walk away from the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Long regarded as one of the best runners of his area, Jones-Drew was a star ball carrier as well as a pass catcher out of the backfield for the Jacksonville Jaguars for much of his career.<\/p>\n<p>In 126 career games he scored a staggering 79 touchdowns and finishes with 8,167 yards rushing for hsi career. The 2014 season was a downer for MJD as he appered in 12 games for the Oakland Raiders but managed just 96 yards on 43 carries failing to score even one touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Jones-Drew has already been seen on different media platforms and should have little problem landing a gig there if he chooses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two down seasons in a row have forced running back Maurice Jones-Drew to walk away from the NFL. Long regarded as one of the best runners of his area, Jones-Drew was a star ball carrier as well as a pass catcher out of the backfield for the Jacksonville Jaguars for much of his career. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,141,306,189],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-14218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","10":"tag-maurice-jones-drew","11":"tag-oakland-raiders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14218","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=14218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14220,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14218\/revisions\/14220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14218"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}