{"id":18196,"date":"2014-05-05T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/patriots-bring-in-will-smith\/"},"modified":"2014-05-05T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T16:43:00","slug":"patriots-bring-in-will-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/patriots-bring-in-will-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots bring in Will Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foxboro, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New England Patriots have signed veteran defensive end Will Smith to an undisclosed contract, the team announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Smith comes to New England following a 10-year stint with the New Orleans Saints, who selected the 32-year-old in the first round of the 2004 draft. He was released by the Saints in February.<\/p>\n<p>A key contributor to New Orleans&#8217; Super Bowl XLIV championship squad in 2009, Smith amassed 67 1\/2 sacks over 139 games with the Saints and twice reached double-digits in that category during his tenure with the team. He missed the entire 2013 campaign, however, after tearing his ACL during training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Smith was named to the Pro Bowl after accumulating 10 1\/2 sacks in 2006 and recorded a career-best 13 along with three forced fumbles during New Orleans&#8217; 2009 Super Bowl run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foxboro, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New England Patriots have signed veteran defensive end Will Smith to an undisclosed contract, the team announced Monday. Smith comes to New England following a 10-year stint with the New Orleans Saints, who selected the 32-year-old in the first round of the 2004 draft. He was released by the Saints [&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-18196","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\/18196","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=18196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}