{"id":9638,"date":"2014-03-17T22:48:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T02:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9638"},"modified":"2014-03-17T22:51:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T02:51:40","slug":"packers-expected-to-re-sign-free-agent-james-starks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/03\/17\/packers-expected-to-re-sign-free-agent-james-starks\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers re-sign free agent James Starks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9639\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9639\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/jamesstarks.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"420\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/jamesstarks.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/jamesstarks-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/jamesstarks-50x35.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Green Bay Packers have re-signed free agent running back James Starks.<\/p>\n<p>Starks, 28, will get a two-year deal according to ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter. He cancelled a visit to Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>While Starks made a few stops he could not land a bigger role than the one he had last season operating at Eddie Lacy&#8217;s backup. He had a 5.5 yard per carry last season on 89 carries for a total of 493 yards and three touchdowns.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Packers now expected to bring back RB James Starks on a two-year deal, per source; deal considered imminent.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/statuses\/445744401034125312\">March 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It is good news for the Packers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Bay Packers have re-signed free agent running back James Starks. Starks, 28, will get a two-year deal according to ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter. He cancelled a visit to Pittsburgh. While Starks made a few stops he could not land a bigger role than the one he had last season operating at Eddie Lacy&#8217;s backup. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[153,696,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-9638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-james-starks","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638","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=9638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9638"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}