{"id":15913,"date":"2019-08-15T18:19:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T22:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=15913"},"modified":"2019-08-15T18:19:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T22:19:24","slug":"landry-jones-becomes-first-qb-to-sign-with-xfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2019\/08\/15\/landry-jones-becomes-first-qb-to-sign-with-xfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Landry Jones becomes first QB to sign with XFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15914\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/08\/landryjones-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/08\/landryjones-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/08\/landryjones-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/08\/landryjones-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/08\/landryjones.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Landy Jones has become the first quarterback to sign with the upstart XFL.<\/p>\n<p>An announcement came on Thursday that the 30-year-old Jones would be part of a eight-man quarterback draft to take place this fall.<\/p>\n<p>The XFL is scheduled to return February and invitations to its draft poll began being sent earlier this month. A October draft followed by minicamp and training camp in December are to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Joens made five starts for the Steelers from 2013 to 2017 and also spent time as a member of the Jaguars last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landy Jones has become the first quarterback to sign with the upstart XFL. An announcement came on Thursday that the 30-year-old Jones would be part of a eight-man quarterback draft to take place this fall. The XFL is scheduled to return February and invitations to its draft poll began being sent earlier this month. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[1028,1017],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-15913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-landry-jones","9":"tag-xfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15913","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=15913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15915,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15913\/revisions\/15915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15913"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}