{"id":22605,"date":"2014-08-25T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/patriots-release-anderson-two-other-veterans\/"},"modified":"2014-08-25T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T14:29:00","slug":"patriots-release-anderson-two-other-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/patriots-release-anderson-two-other-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots release Anderson, two other veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foxboro, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New England Patriots released veteran linebacker James Anderson on Monday, just a few months after bringing him into the fold.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson started all 16 games for the Bears last year, recording 102 tackles and four sacks. The 30-year-old Anderson played for the Panthers from 2006 to 2012 before signing with Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>New England also cut ties with defensive linemen Tommy Kelly and Will Smith, along with rookie tight end Justin Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly spent last season with the Pats, his 10th pro campaign, picking up 22 tackles and 2 1\/2 sacks in just five contests while hampered by a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Smith&#8217;s 2013 campaign never got off the ground, having suffered a knee injury in training camp which landed him on injured reserve. The 33-year-old played with the Saints from 2004-2013 before joining the Patriots in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foxboro, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New England Patriots released veteran linebacker James Anderson on Monday, just a few months after bringing him into the fold. Anderson started all 16 games for the Bears last year, recording 102 tackles and four sacks. The 30-year-old Anderson played for the Panthers from 2006 to 2012 before signing with [&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":[182,181,183],"class_list":["post-22605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-patriots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22605","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=22605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}