{"id":7637,"date":"2013-12-20T10:45:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T15:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2013-12-20T10:45:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T15:45:35","slug":"willis-mcgahee-not-ready-to-walk-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/20\/willis-mcgahee-not-ready-to-walk-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Willis McGahee not ready to walk away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/willismcgahee.jpg\" alt=\"willismcgahee\" width=\"594\" height=\"429\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/willismcgahee.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/willismcgahee-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/willismcgahee-50x36.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nWillis McGahee has averaged just 2.7 yards per carry this season but the veteran running back is not ready to walk away from the game of football.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to play four more years,&#8221; said McGahee, via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/browns\/index.ssf\/2013\/12\/running_back_willis_mcgahee_wa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Plain Dealer<\/a>. &#8220;That would give me 15 years. This would come from a guy who was never supposed to play again. My back has always been against the wall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old McGahee did not have a job until Week 3 when the Browns sent former first round pick Trent Richardson to Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>McGahee has come back from two serious knee injuries during his career to be a two-time pro bowler.<\/p>\n<p>This year McGahee has 377 yards rushing on 138 attempts with two touchdowns. He currently ranks 27th all-time with 8,474 yards rushing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willis McGahee has averaged just 2.7 yards per carry this season but the veteran running back is not ready to walk away from the game of football. &#8220;I want to play four more years,&#8221; said McGahee, via the Plain Dealer. &#8220;That would give me 15 years. This would come from a guy who was never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[139,216,137],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-7637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-nfl","tag-willis-mcgahee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637","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=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}