{"id":22584,"date":"2014-08-25T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bills-cut-qb-dixon-k-hopkins\/"},"modified":"2014-08-25T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T11:27:00","slug":"bills-cut-qb-dixon-k-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bills-cut-qb-dixon-k-hopkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills cut QB Dixon, K Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orchard Park, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Buffalo Bills released 11 players on Monday to meet the league&#8217;s 75-man limit.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Dennis Dixon and kicker Dustin Hopkins were among the cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Hopkins was a long shot to make the team after the Bills re-signed Dan Carpenter to an extension this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>A sixth-round pick of the Bills in 2013, Hopkins sustained a groin injury prior to the start of last season. That prompted Buffalo to sign Carpenter. Hopkins was eventually placed on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Dixon last appeared in a regular-season game during the 2010 season.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo also released safeties Derek Brim and Jajuan Harley, punter Jake Dombrowski, wide receivers Tori Gurley and Chris Summers, defensive tackle Damien Jacobs, center Macky MacPherson, guard J.J. &#8216;Unga and running back Ronnie Wingo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchard Park, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Buffalo Bills released 11 players on Monday to meet the league&#8217;s 75-man limit. Quarterback Dennis Dixon and kicker Dustin Hopkins were among the cuts. Hopkins was a long shot to make the team after the Bills re-signed Dan Carpenter to an extension this offseason. A sixth-round pick of the [&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":[83,82,81],"class_list":["post-22584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-bills","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-bills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22584","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=22584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}