{"id":18990,"date":"2014-05-21T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/vikings-sign-top-pick-barr\/"},"modified":"2014-05-21T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T16:00:10","slug":"vikings-sign-top-pick-barr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/vikings-sign-top-pick-barr\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings sign top pick Barr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eden Prairie, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Minnesota Vikings have signed linebacker Anthony Barr, their first pick in the 2014 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Barr was chosen with the ninth overall selection earlier this month after a standout collegiate career at UCLA. In his final two seasons, he totaled 151 tackles, 23 1\/2 sacks, 40 1\/2 tackles for loss and nine forced fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>An All-Pac-12 selection in 2012 as a junior, he was a finalist for numerous honors in his senior season of 2013 when he notched 10 sacks and 18 1\/2 tackles for loss.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings inked their other first-round pick, quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, on Tuesday and on Wednesday also signed safety Antone Exum, a sixth-round choice out of Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eden Prairie, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Minnesota Vikings have signed linebacker Anthony Barr, their first pick in the 2014 NFL Draft. Barr was chosen with the ninth overall selection earlier this month after a standout collegiate career at UCLA. In his final two seasons, he totaled 151 tackles, 23 1\/2 sacks, 40 1\/2 tackles for [&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":[72,71,73],"class_list":["post-18990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18990","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=18990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18991,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18990\/revisions\/18991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}