{"id":15554,"date":"2014-03-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/colts-give-mcafee-long-term-deal\/"},"modified":"2014-03-07T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T11:00:00","slug":"colts-give-mcafee-long-term-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/colts-give-mcafee-long-term-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts give McAfee long-term deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indianapolis, IN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee has agreed to a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>Terms were not disclosed, but McAfee told &#8220;NFL AM&#8221; on the NFL Network that he has agreed to a five-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>McAfee averaged 46.0 yards with a 38.5-yard net on 76 punts last season. He set a single-season record with 27 punts inside the 20-yard line, including a team-record six during a Week 7 game against Denver.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, McAfee had 41 touchbacks on 86 kickoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Colts made McAfee their franchise player last year and he played the 2013 season under a one-year tender.<\/p>\n<p>McAfee, a seventh-round pick in the 2009 draft, holds Colts career records with a gross punting average of 45.6 yards and a net average of 38.4 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indianapolis, IN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee has agreed to a new contract. Terms were not disclosed, but McAfee told &#8220;NFL AM&#8221; on the NFL Network that he has agreed to a five-year deal. McAfee averaged 46.0 yards with a 38.5-yard net on 76 punts last season. He set a single-season record with [&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":[155,154,153],"class_list":["post-15554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-colts","tag-indianapolis","tag-indianapolis-colts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15554","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=15554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}