{"id":15575,"date":"2014-03-07T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/vikings-reach-deal-with-cb-sherels\/"},"modified":"2014-03-07T21:50:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T21:50:16","slug":"vikings-reach-deal-with-cb-sherels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/vikings-reach-deal-with-cb-sherels\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings reach deal with CB Sherels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eden Prairie, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Minnesota Vikings announced Friday that the team has re-signed cornerback\/return man Marcus Sherels to an undisclosed contract.<\/p>\n<p>Sherels, the Vikings&#8217; primary punt returner the last three seasons, was eligible for restricted free agency.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Minnesota product ranked second in the NFL by averaging a club-record 15.2 yards on 22 punt returns last season, highlighted by an 86- yard touchdown against the New York Giants on Oct. 21. Sherels also took a punt back 77 yards for a score during the 2012 campaign, and has averaged 10.3 yards on 87 career returns.<\/p>\n<p>Sherels saw an increased role on defense as well in 2013, starting three games and recording 46 tackles, one interception and six passes defensed in 16 contests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eden Prairie, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Minnesota Vikings announced Friday that the team has re-signed cornerback\/return man Marcus Sherels to an undisclosed contract. Sherels, the Vikings&#8217; primary punt returner the last three seasons, was eligible for restricted free agency. The University of Minnesota product ranked second in the NFL by averaging a club-record 15.2 yards [&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":[72,71,73],"class_list":["post-15575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575","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=15575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15576,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575\/revisions\/15576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}