{"id":8788,"date":"2014-01-29T22:56:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T03:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8788"},"modified":"2014-01-29T22:56:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T03:56:26","slug":"bears-moving-shea-mcclellin-to-linebacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/01\/29\/bears-moving-shea-mcclellin-to-linebacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears moving Shea McClellin to linebacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7891\" style=\"width: 2177px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/aaronrodgersbears.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron Rodgers and the Bears again\" width=\"2177\" height=\"1451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/aaronrodgersbears.jpg 2177w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/aaronrodgersbears-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/aaronrodgersbears-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/aaronrodgersbears-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2177px) 100vw, 2177px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Chicago Bears are moving 2012 first-round pick Shea McClellin to linebacker for 2014 according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/football\/bears\/ct-biggs-super-bowl-spt-0130-20140130,0,4202149.story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chicago Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McClellin has never had success as a pass-rusher and the Bears are hopeful that he could transform into a Bruce Irvin type linebacker.<\/p>\n<p>In two seasons since being drafted the 24-year-old McClellin has 6.5 sacks and 44 tackles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bears are moving 2012 first-round pick Shea McClellin to linebacker for 2014 according to the Chicago Tribune. McClellin has never had success as a pass-rusher and the Bears are hopeful that he could transform into a Bruce Irvin type linebacker. In two seasons since being drafted the 24-year-old McClellin has 6.5 sacks and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[36,622],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-8788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-bears","tag-shea-mcclellin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788","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=8788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8788"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}