{"id":15729,"date":"2014-03-10T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/steelers-set-to-cut-lb-woodley\/"},"modified":"2014-03-10T20:10:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T20:10:06","slug":"steelers-set-to-cut-lb-woodley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/steelers-set-to-cut-lb-woodley\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers set to cut LB Woodley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Steelers are reportedly planning to release veteran linebacker LaMarr Woodley on Tuesday in an effort to cut salary.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Woodley, who was scheduled to earn $8 million and count $13.6 million against the salary cap in 2014, has already been informed by the team that he will be released when free agency begins on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Woodley, 29, was limited to 11 games in 2013 due to calf injuries and managed just 36 tackles and five sacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Michigan product hasn&#8217;t played a full 16-game season since 2010, when he racked up 50 tackles, 10 sacks and two interceptions while starting every game for the Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>Over seven NFL seasons, all in Pittsburgh, Woodley has totaled 299 tackles, 57 sacks, nine forced fumbles and five interceptions in 94 games, including 81 starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Steelers are reportedly planning to release veteran linebacker LaMarr Woodley on Tuesday in an effort to cut salary. According to a report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Woodley, who was scheduled to earn $8 million and count $13.6 million against the salary cap in 2014, has already been informed by [&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":[143,142,144],"class_list":["post-15729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15729","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=15729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15731,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15729\/revisions\/15731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}