{"id":5679,"date":"2013-10-05T00:10:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T04:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2013-10-05T00:10:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T04:10:52","slug":"jets-wr-tebows-aura-makes-him-worth-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/10\/05\/jets-wr-tebows-aura-makes-him-worth-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets WR: Tebow&#8217;s aura makes him worth signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4321\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4321\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4321\" alt=\"Source: Jared Wickerham\/Getty Images North America\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/07\/timtebow.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/07\/timtebow.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/07\/timtebow-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/07\/timtebow-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Jared Wickerham\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tim Tebow is not currently on an NFL roster. While Tebow is not your traditional quarterback he does bring something to a potential employer.<\/p>\n<p>Aura.<\/p>\n<p>Recently the New York Jets signed David Nelson who had planned to work out with the quarterback next week. The two had previously played together at the University of Florida, winning the 2009 BCS championship game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am, just because I know him,\u201d Nelson told the <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/10\/03\/tebow-worth-signing-for-his-aura-says-jets-receiver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York Post<\/a>, \u201cand I know what he can bring to a team, not just from the physical aspect of on the field but what he brings off the field \u2013 that aura and the presence he has about him. Guys love being around him. Guys feed off that and he makes other people better. Even if he\u2019s not out there calling the plays, he\u2019s helping guys, coaching guys. To have that as a backup quarterback is extremely valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before people get all upset about the idea of Tebow in the NFL its worth highlighting that Nelson did say backup quarterback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Tim Tebow is not currently on an NFL roster. While Tebow is not your traditional quarterback he does bring something to a potential employer. Aura. Recently the New York Jets signed David Nelson who had planned to work out with the quarterback next week. The two had previously played together at the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[31,59],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-5679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-new-york-jets","9":"tag-tim-tebow"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679","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=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}