{"id":4923,"date":"2013-09-06T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=4923"},"modified":"2013-09-06T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T16:00:03","slug":"bears-wide-receiver-earl-bennett-takes-paycut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/09\/06\/bears-wide-receiver-earl-bennett-takes-paycut\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears wide receiver Earl Bennett takes paycut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4924\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4924\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/earlbennett.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/earlbennett.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/earlbennett-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/earlbennett-50x32.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chicago Bears wide receiver Earl Bennett has agreed to a $1 million pay cut this season.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett, 26, will see his salary go from $2.25 million down to $1.25 million as a result.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Bears WR Earl Bennett took a $1M pay cut this week. Was due $2.25M in base salary, now will earn $1.25M. Bears save $1M in cash\/cap space<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian McIntyre (@brian_mcintyre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brian_mcintyre\/statuses\/375988789174206464\">September 6, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bennett is no higher then the No. 4 target in the Bears passing game and accepting the pay cut likely kept him on the roster. His salary for next season remains untouched by barring a break out this will be his last season with the Bears.<\/p>\n<p>Slowed this preseason by a concussion, Bennett has been practicing this week ahead of the Bears Week 1 match-up against Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a steady statistical decline since 2009 for Bennett. (54 catches, 717 yards)<\/p>\n<p>Bennett appeared in parts of 12 games last year catching 29 passes for 375 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Chicago Bears wide receiver Earl Bennett has agreed to a $1 million pay cut this season. Bennett, 26, will see his salary go from $2.25 million down to $1.25 million as a result. Bears WR Earl Bennett took a $1M pay cut this week. Was due $2.25M in base salary, now will earn $1.25M. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[36,94],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-4923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-bears","tag-earl-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923","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=4923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4923"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}