{"id":16787,"date":"2014-03-27T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/patriots-restructure-wilforks-contract\/"},"modified":"2014-03-27T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T18:42:00","slug":"patriots-restructure-wilforks-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/patriots-restructure-wilforks-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots restructure Wilfork&#8217;s contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Vince Wilfork will remain with the New England Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN, the team has restructured the defensive tackle&#8217;s contract.<\/p>\n<p>The new deal is reportedly for one year and $8 million, with $3 million guaranteed, and it includes an option for two more years.<\/p>\n<p>A five-time Pro Bowler, Wilfork had requested to be released earlier this month after being approached by the team to take a pay cut, but the two parties were able to find common ground.<\/p>\n<p>Wilfork, who suffered a season-ending Achilles injury in late September, was scheduled to earn $7.5 million in the final year of his contract and count $11.6 million against the salary cap in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots selected Wilfork in the first round of the 2004 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Vince Wilfork will remain with the New England Patriots. According to ESPN, the team has restructured the defensive tackle&#8217;s contract. The new deal is reportedly for one year and $8 million, with $3 million guaranteed, and it includes an option for two more years. A five-time Pro Bowler, Wilfork had requested to be [&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":[182,181,183],"class_list":["post-16787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-patriots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787","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=16787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}