{"id":19760,"date":"2014-06-17T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/titans-reach-deal-with-rb-sankey\/"},"modified":"2014-06-17T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T17:36:00","slug":"titans-reach-deal-with-rb-sankey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/titans-reach-deal-with-rb-sankey\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans reach deal with RB Sankey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tennessee Titans announced Tuesday that the team has agreed to contract terms with rookie Bishop Sankey, the first running back selected in this year&#8217;s NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans took Sankey in the second round (No. 54 overall) following a highly productive junior campaign at the University of Washington, where he rushed for a school-record 1,870 yards and 20 touchdowns and amassed 2,174 yards from scrimmage in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Sankey, who put up 1,439 yards and 16 touchdowns on the ground the previous season, is expected to contend for a starter&#8217;s role in a Tennessee backfield that no longer contains six-time 1,000-yard rusher Chris Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans also signed wide receiver Derek Hagan, a veteran of 83 NFL games over seven seasons with Miami, the New York Giants, Oakland and Buffalo. The 29-year-old last played in a regular-season game in 2012, recording 20 catches over 14 contests with the Raiders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tennessee Titans announced Tuesday that the team has agreed to contract terms with rookie Bishop Sankey, the first running back selected in this year&#8217;s NFL draft. The Titans took Sankey in the second round (No. 54 overall) following a highly productive junior campaign at the University of Washington, where he [&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-19760","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\/19760","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=19760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}