{"id":19551,"date":"2014-06-05T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/steelers-sign-first-round-pick-shazier\/"},"modified":"2014-06-05T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T18:06:00","slug":"steelers-sign-first-round-pick-shazier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/steelers-sign-first-round-pick-shazier\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers sign first-round pick Shazier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Steelers signed linebacker Ryan Shazier, the 15th overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft, to a four-year contract on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Shazier spent three seasons at Ohio State and racked up 316 tackles, 14 sacks, 44 1\/2 tackles for loss and nine forced fumbles in 39 games, including the final 29 as the Buckeyes&#8217; starting weakside outside linebacker.<\/p>\n<p>During his junior season in 2013, the 6-foot-1, 237-pounder racked up 143 total tackles, six sacks and four forced fumbles in 13 games to earn first- team All-America honors.<\/p>\n<p>Following the signing of Shazier, Pittsburgh has now inked six of their nine selections from this year&#8217;s draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Steelers signed linebacker Ryan Shazier, the 15th overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft, to a four-year contract on Thursday. Shazier spent three seasons at Ohio State and racked up 316 tackles, 14 sacks, 44 1\/2 tackles for loss and nine forced fumbles in 39 games, including the final [&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":[143,142,144],"class_list":["post-19551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19551","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=19551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}