{"id":17940,"date":"2014-04-29T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/seahawks-make-thomas-extension-official\/"},"modified":"2014-04-29T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:31:00","slug":"seahawks-make-thomas-extension-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/seahawks-make-thomas-extension-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks make Thomas extension official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renton, WA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Seattle Seahawks officially signed safety Earl Thomas to a contract extension on Tuesday, making him the highest-paid player at his position.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple media outlets reported Monday that the deal is worth $40 million over four years, with $27.725 million guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas had a career-high 105 tackles, five interceptions and nine passes defensed in 16 games last season, leading the &#8220;Legion of Boom&#8221; Seahawks secondary during the team&#8217;s first Super Bowl title.<\/p>\n<p>Since being selected by the Seahawks with the 14th overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, Thomas has started 64 consecutive regular-season games and all seven of Seattle&#8217;s playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>A three-time Pro-Bowl selection, Thomas has recorded 345 tackles, 15 interceptions and 32 passes defensed during the regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renton, WA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Seattle Seahawks officially signed safety Earl Thomas to a contract extension on Tuesday, making him the highest-paid player at his position. Multiple media outlets reported Monday that the deal is worth $40 million over four years, with $27.725 million guaranteed. Thomas had a career-high 105 tackles, five interceptions and nine [&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":[132,131,130],"class_list":["post-17940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-seahawks","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-seahawks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17940","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=17940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}