{"id":19679,"date":"2014-06-15T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/former-titans-rb-thomas-dies\/"},"modified":"2014-06-15T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T19:38:00","slug":"former-titans-rb-thomas-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/former-titans-rb-thomas-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Titans RB Thomas dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tennessee Titans announced Sunday that former running back Rodney Thomas died at the age of 41.<\/p>\n<p>A third-round pick of the then-Houston Oilers in 1995, Thomas rushed for career highs of 947 yards and five touchdowns on 251 attempts in his rookie season. He never again regained that form, relegated to a backup with his highest total thereafter a 310-yard season in 1997, thanks to the Oilers taking Eddie George out of Ohio State in &#8217;96.<\/p>\n<p>Over a seven-year pro career with the Oilers\/Titans franchise and Atlanta, Thomas racked up 1,973 yards and 12 TDs in 103 appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tennessee Titans announced Sunday that former running back Rodney Thomas died at the age of 41. A third-round pick of the then-Houston Oilers in 1995, Thomas rushed for career highs of 947 yards and five touchdowns on 251 attempts in his rookie season. He never again regained that form, relegated [&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":[101,100,102],"class_list":["post-19679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-titans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679","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=19679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}