{"id":18063,"date":"2014-05-02T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/redskins-exercise-fifth-year-option-on-kerrigan\/"},"modified":"2014-05-02T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T11:21:00","slug":"redskins-exercise-fifth-year-option-on-kerrigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/redskins-exercise-fifth-year-option-on-kerrigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Redskins exercise fifth-year option on Kerrigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashburn, VA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Redskins have exercised their fifth-year option on the contract of linebacker Ryan Kerrigan.<\/p>\n<p>Kerrigan had a career-high 66 tackles, 8 1\/2 sacks and three passes defensed in 16 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Kerrigan has started all 48 of Washington&#8217;s regular-season games and one playoff game since the team selected him with the 16th overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft. He was a 2012 Pro Bowl selection.<\/p>\n<p>In three seasons, the Purdue product has recorded 183 tackles, 24 1\/2 sacks, 15 passes defensed, 10 fumbles forced, two interceptions (both returned for touchdowns) and one fumble recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashburn, VA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Redskins have exercised their fifth-year option on the contract of linebacker Ryan Kerrigan. Kerrigan had a career-high 66 tackles, 8 1\/2 sacks and three passes defensed in 16 games last season. The 25-year-old Kerrigan has started all 48 of Washington&#8217;s regular-season games and one playoff game since the team [&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":[96,95,94],"class_list":["post-18063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-redskins","tag-washington","tag-washington-redskins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18063","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=18063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}