{"id":22676,"date":"2014-08-26T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/broncos-pick-up-kicker-from-giants\/"},"modified":"2014-08-26T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T18:05:00","slug":"broncos-pick-up-kicker-from-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/broncos-pick-up-kicker-from-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos pick up kicker from Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Englewood, CO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Denver Broncos filled a void at kicker on Tuesday, acquiring Brandon McManus from the New York Giants in exchange for a conditional seventh-round pick in the 2015 draft.<\/p>\n<p>McManus will likely handle the kicking duties while Matt Prater serves a four- game suspension for violating the NFL Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Prater is eligible to return after the Broncos&#8217; Oct. 5 game against Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>McManus was set to be released by the Giants on Tuesday. He connected on both of his field goal attempts and recorded touchbacks on 10-of-11 kickoffs during the preseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Temple product spent the 2013 preseason with Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Denver also waived kicker Mitch Ewald, an undrafted rookie from Indiana, to open a roster spot for McManus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Englewood, CO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Denver Broncos filled a void at kicker on Tuesday, acquiring Brandon McManus from the New York Giants in exchange for a conditional seventh-round pick in the 2015 draft. McManus will likely handle the kicking duties while Matt Prater serves a four- game suspension for violating the NFL Policy and Program [&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":[127,126,125,57,59,103],"class_list":["post-22676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-broncos","tag-denver","tag-denver-broncos","tag-giants","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22676","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=22676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}