{"id":4760,"date":"2013-08-30T13:19:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T17:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=4760"},"modified":"2013-08-30T13:19:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T17:19:41","slug":"patriots-cut-pair-of-tight-ends-in-jake-ballard-and-daniel-fells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/08\/30\/patriots-cut-pair-of-tight-ends-in-jake-ballard-and-daniel-fells\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots cut pair of tight ends in Jake Ballard and Daniel Fells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4761\" alt=\"jakeballard\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/jakeballard.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/jakeballard.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/jakeballard-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/jakeballard-50x28.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The New England Patriots cut a pair of tight ends on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>With the releasing of Jake Ballard and Daniel Fells the Patriots sent a message that they expect Rob Gronkowski to avoid the PUP list to start the season.<\/p>\n<p>Ballard, 25, never made it above third on the depth chart and his bad knees have taken away any assets he could have brought a team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Patriots&amp;src=hash\">#Patriots<\/a> have cut TE Daniel Fells, source tells me. Signed a three-year, $5.25M contract last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/statuses\/373486725814702081\">August 30, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Fells was cut prior to starting the season which will save the Patriots $1.25 million against the cap. He was in the second year of a three-year deal worth $5.25 million. Fells has just 23 catches over the last two seasons, a number that is not expected to rise now that he is a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>These cuts would seem to increase the likelihood that Tim Tebow will be on the Patriots 53-man roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Patriots cut a pair of tight ends on Friday. With the releasing of Jake Ballard and Daniel Fells the Patriots sent a message that they expect Rob Gronkowski to avoid the PUP list to start the season. Ballard, 25, never made it above third on the depth chart and his bad knees [&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":[373],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-4760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","tag-jake-ballard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760","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=4760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4760"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}