{"id":19290,"date":"2014-05-29T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/chargers-ink-first-rounder-verrett\/"},"modified":"2014-05-29T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T20:10:00","slug":"chargers-ink-first-rounder-verrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/chargers-ink-first-rounder-verrett\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers ink first-rounder Verrett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Cornerback Jason Verrett, the 25th overall pick in this year&#8217;s NFL Draft, officially signed his rookie contract with the San Diego Chargers Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>With the ex-TCU standout and first-round choice agreeing to terms, the Chargers now have all six of their 2014 draftees under contract.<\/p>\n<p>Verrett earned co-Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year honors during his senior year with the Horned Frogs and was a semifinalist for the 2013 Jim Thorpe Award honoring the nation&#8217;s top collegiate defensive back.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-foot-10, 189-pounder registered 39 tackles, two interceptions, 14 passes defensed and one sack in 11 games this past season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Cornerback Jason Verrett, the 25th overall pick in this year&#8217;s NFL Draft, officially signed his rookie contract with the San Diego Chargers Thursday. With the ex-TCU standout and first-round choice agreeing to terms, the Chargers now have all six of their 2014 draftees under contract. Verrett earned co-Big 12 Defensive [&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":[86,85,84],"class_list":["post-19290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-chargers","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-chargers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19290","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=19290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}