{"id":15354,"date":"2016-01-07T00:27:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T05:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=15354"},"modified":"2016-01-07T00:27:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T05:27:27","slug":"calvin-johnson-considering-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2016\/01\/07\/calvin-johnson-considering-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Calvin Johnson considering retirement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Calvin Johnson may be considering retirement. The wide receiver reportedly told his mother that &#8220;he wasn&#8217;t sure he wanted to play anymore&#8221; according to ESPN&#8217;s Ed Werder.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is coming off a season in which he snagged 88 catches for 1214 yards and nine touchdowns but apparently cleaned out his locker unlike many of the other veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Still playing at a high level it would be a surprise to see Johnson retire at the age of 30 but apparently is an all of nothing guy according to a teammate who said &#8220;Calvin is the kind of guy who says, &#8216;If I don&#8217;t feel I&#8217;m into this 100 percent, then I need to decide if want to be in at all.&#8217;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Source says Calvin Johnson told his mother he wasn&#39;t sure wanted to play any more; cleaned out his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lions?src=hash\">#Lions<\/a> locker unlike other vet players<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ed Werder (@Edwerderespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Edwerderespn\/status\/684889718765387777\">January 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Lions are coming off a 7-9 season. After a rough start the team got better later in the season thanks in part to a easier schedule. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Calvin Johnson may be considering retirement. The wide receiver reportedly told his mother that &#8220;he wasn&#8217;t sure he wanted to play anymore&#8221; according to ESPN&#8217;s Ed Werder. Johnson is coming off a season in which he snagged 88 catches for 1214 yards and nine touchdowns but apparently cleaned out his locker unlike many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[157,151,426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-15354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-calvin-johnson","8":"tag-detroit-lions","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15354","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=15354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15355,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15354\/revisions\/15355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15354"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}