{"id":15395,"date":"2014-03-04T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/chargers-part-ways-with-mcclain-cox-patrick\/"},"modified":"2014-03-04T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:26:00","slug":"chargers-part-ways-with-mcclain-cox-patrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/chargers-part-ways-with-mcclain-cox-patrick\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers part ways with McClain, Cox, Patrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The San Diego Chargers cut loose three veteran players Tuesday in an effort to clear salary cap space, releasing cornerbacks Derek Cox and Johnny Patrick along with fullback Le&#8217;Ron McClain.<\/p>\n<p>Cox, signed to a four-year, $20 million contract as an unrestricted free agent last March, was a disappointment in his lone season in San Diego. The former Jacksonville Jaguar lost his starting job in midseason and managed just 38 tackles and one interception in 16 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>The five-year pro&#8217;s $4.25 million base salary for 2014 would have been fully guaranteed if he remained on the roster by March 13.<\/p>\n<p>McClain was entering the final season of a three-year deal he signed with San Diego in 2012 and saw a limited offensive role this past year, recording 32 yards on 11 carries and a pair of receptions.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick registered 38 tackles, one interception and 1 1\/2 sacks in 13 games (4 starts) last season prior to landing on injured reserve with an ankle issue. The 25-year-old was claimed off waivers by San Diego from the New Orleans Saints last February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The San Diego Chargers cut loose three veteran players Tuesday in an effort to clear salary cap space, releasing cornerbacks Derek Cox and Johnny Patrick along with fullback Le&#8217;Ron McClain. Cox, signed to a four-year, $20 million contract as an unrestricted free agent last March, was a disappointment in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[86,85,84],"class_list":["post-15395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-chargers","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-chargers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}