{"id":18069,"date":"2014-05-02T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/browns-pick-up-fifth-year-option-on-phil-taylor\/"},"modified":"2014-05-02T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T12:07:00","slug":"browns-pick-up-fifth-year-option-on-phil-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/browns-pick-up-fifth-year-option-on-phil-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns pick up fifth-year option on Phil Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berea, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cleveland Browns have exercised the fifth- year option on defensive lineman Phil Taylor&#8217;s rookie contract.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor had 26 tackles and two sacks last season in 15 games at nose tackle in Cleveland&#8217;s 3-4 defense after transitioning from defensive tackle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very evident to us watching on tape and seeing him in person this week that Phil Taylor is very explosive and he&#8217;s a great fit for what we want to do on defense,&#8221; said Browns coach Mike Pettine. &#8220;I like his ability to rush the passer and be there to clog up the middle at the point of attack when we need him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3, 335-pounder has 99 tackles, seven sacks, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery since the Browns selected him with the 21st overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berea, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cleveland Browns have exercised the fifth- year option on defensive lineman Phil Taylor&#8217;s rookie contract. Taylor had 26 tackles and two sacks last season in 15 games at nose tackle in Cleveland&#8217;s 3-4 defense after transitioning from defensive tackle. &#8220;It&#8217;s very evident to us watching on tape and seeing him [&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":[77,54,76],"class_list":["post-18069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-browns","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-browns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069","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=18069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}