{"id":16774,"date":"2014-03-27T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bengals-sign-peko-to-two-year-extension\/"},"modified":"2014-03-27T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T15:10:00","slug":"bengals-sign-peko-to-two-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bengals-sign-peko-to-two-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals sign Peko to two-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cincinnati Bengals have signed defensive tackle Domata Peko to a two-year contract extension through the 2016 season.<\/p>\n<p>Peko&#8217;s deal was slated to expire after the upcoming 2014 campaign. He started all 16 games at nose tackle last year and notched a career-high three sacks with 52 tackles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Domata has been a significant and productive player for our defense for many years now, and we are excited to extend his time here even longer,&#8221; said Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis in a statement Thursday. &#8220;He is a leader among our veterans and a mentor for our younger players, and securing his future as a Bengal through the next three seasons is another positive step in continuing to improve our team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Peko has been a starter on the defensive line since his second season of 2007 and his string of 67 straight starts, including the postseason, is the longest current streak on the Cincinnati roster.<\/p>\n<p>The Michigan State product was selected by the Bengals in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cincinnati Bengals have signed defensive tackle Domata Peko to a two-year contract extension through the 2016 season. Peko&#8217;s deal was slated to expire after the upcoming 2014 campaign. He started all 16 games at nose tackle last year and notched a career-high three sacks with 52 tackles. &#8220;Domata has been [&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":[119,118,117],"class_list":["post-16774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-bengals","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16774","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=16774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}