{"id":15633,"date":"2014-03-08T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bucs-cut-two-time-pro-bowler-joseph\/"},"modified":"2014-03-08T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T18:48:00","slug":"bucs-cut-two-time-pro-bowler-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bucs-cut-two-time-pro-bowler-joseph\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs cut two-time Pro Bowler Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Davin Joseph&#8217;s eight-year tenure with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers officially came to an end Saturday, with the team releasing the two-time Pro Bowl guard to clear salary cap space.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph, Tampa Bay&#8217;s first-round selection (23rd overall) in the 2006 draft, earned Pro Bowl honors in 2008 and 2011 before missing the entire 2012 campaign due to a knee injury. He returned to start all 16 games at right guard this past season.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old was due a $6 million salary this upcoming season, the fourth in a seven-year, $52.5 million contract he signed in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Decisions like this are never easy when it comes to parting ways with players such as Davin,&#8221; said Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht. &#8220;We thank Davin for his contributions on and off the field during his eight years in Tampa Bay and we wish him well in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Joseph started all but one of the 100 games he appeared in during his time in Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Davin Joseph&#8217;s eight-year tenure with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers officially came to an end Saturday, with the team releasing the two-time Pro Bowl guard to clear salary cap space. Joseph, Tampa Bay&#8217;s first-round selection (23rd overall) in the 2006 draft, earned Pro Bowl honors in 2008 and 2011 before missing the [&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":[68,67,66],"class_list":["post-15633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-buccaneers","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15633","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=15633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}