{"id":9365,"date":"2014-03-04T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9365"},"modified":"2014-03-04T12:38:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:38:13","slug":"chargers-release-fb-leron-mcclain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/03\/04\/chargers-release-fb-leron-mcclain\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers release FB Le&#8217;Ron McClain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/leronmcclain.jpg\" alt=\"leronmcclain\" width=\"594\" height=\"452\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/leronmcclain.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/leronmcclain-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/leronmcclain-50x38.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The San Diego Chargers have cut fullback Le&#8217;Ron McClain.<\/p>\n<p>McClain, 29, saw his playing time disappear with Mike McCoy taking over as the head coach of the Chargers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Chargers have released fullback Le&#39;Ron McClain, per source. Move clears $2.5 million in cap space.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Gehlken (@UTgehlken) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UTgehlken\/statuses\/440896473668915201\">March 4, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>San Diego will save $2.5 million against the salary cap with the move. McClain was set to make $3 million this season. He should have no problem finding a job on the open market but considering the small useage of fullbacks in the NFL his salary is not going to reach $3 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Chargers have cut fullback Le&#8217;Ron McClain. McClain, 29, saw his playing time disappear with Mike McCoy taking over as the head coach of the Chargers. Chargers have released fullback Le&#39;Ron McClain, per source. Move clears $2.5 million in cap space. &mdash; Michael Gehlken (@UTgehlken) March 4, 2014 San Diego will save $2.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[666,78],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-9365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-leron-mcclain","tag-san-diego-chargers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365","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=9365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9365"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}