{"id":15881,"date":"2014-03-12T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cowboys-release-longtime-wr-austin\/"},"modified":"2014-03-12T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T15:13:00","slug":"cowboys-release-longtime-wr-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cowboys-release-longtime-wr-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys release longtime WR Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irving, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Dallas Cowboys released veteran wide receiver Miles Austin on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys designated it as a June 1 cut. The move will save the team $5.5 million against the salary cap this season, though that money will be unavailable until after June 1.<\/p>\n<p>Austin had been with the Cowboys since signing as an undrafted free agent in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>A hamstring injury sidelined the 29-year-old for five contests last season and he finished with only 24 receptions, his fewest since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Austin topped 1,000 yards receiving twice during his time with the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, Austin has caught 301 passes for 4,481 yards and 34 touchdowns in 106 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irving, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Dallas Cowboys released veteran wide receiver Miles Austin on Wednesday. The Cowboys designated it as a June 1 cut. The move will save the team $5.5 million against the salary cap this season, though that money will be unavailable until after June 1. Austin had been with the Cowboys since [&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":[150,149,148],"class_list":["post-15881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-cowboys","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881","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=15881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}