{"id":21158,"date":"2014-07-22T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/tyree-joins-giants-front-office\/"},"modified":"2014-07-22T18:30:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T18:30:11","slug":"tyree-joins-giants-front-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/tyree-joins-giants-front-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyree joins Giants&#8217; front office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Rutherford, NJ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Giants named David Tyree director of player development on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tyree, a former wide receiver for the Giants, replaces Charles Way, also a former Giant player who left the position earlier this offseason to head the NFL&#8217;s player engagement department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased to have David back in the building as the new leader of our Player Development Department,&#8221; Giants general manager Jerry Reese said. &#8220;We interviewed four outstanding candidates to replace Charles, but at the end of the day David was a perfect and natural fit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tyree is best known for making one of the most historic catches in Super Bowl history, pinning a pass from quarterback Eli Manning on his helmet as he fell to the ground in Super Bowl XLII. The fourth-quarter catch went for 32 yards on a 3rd-and-5 and led to the Giants&#8217; eventual game-winning touchdown against the New England Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Tyree first joined the Giants as a sixth-round draft choice in 2003. He played in 73 regular-season games and caught 54 passes for 650 yards and four touchdowns, earning a Pro Bowl nod in 2005 for his special teams efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Rutherford, NJ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Giants named David Tyree director of player development on Tuesday. Tyree, a former wide receiver for the Giants, replaces Charles Way, also a former Giant player who left the position earlier this offseason to head the NFL&#8217;s player engagement department. &#8220;We are pleased to have David back [&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":[57,59,103],"class_list":["post-21158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-giants","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21158","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=21158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21167,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21158\/revisions\/21167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}