{"id":235,"date":"2013-03-06T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/49ers-release-k-akers\/"},"modified":"2013-03-06T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T18:37:00","slug":"49ers-release-k-akers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/49ers-release-k-akers\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers release K Akers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The San Francisco 49ers announced that they have released kicker David Akers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 49ers would like to thank David for his service, dedication and leadership over the past two years,&#8221; said 49ers general manager Trent Baalke. &#8220;He is a true professional who represented himself and this organization with class. We wish him, and his family, all the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Akers, 38, struggled in the regular season last year, converting on 69 percent of his attempts, his lowest since 1999, when he was a member of the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>The six-time Pro Bowler nearly lost his job when the 49ers brought in Billy Cundiff for a tryout just after New Year&#8217;s Day. However, he performed well in the postseason, connecting on four of his five attempts, including 3-for-3 in the Super Bowl against the Baltimore Ravens.<\/p>\n<p>In 221 games with the Redskins (1998), Eagles (1999-2010) and 49ers (2011-12), Akers has connected on 367-of-453 field goal attempts and 521-of-527 PATs. In 2011, he set the NFL record for most field goals made (44) and attempted (52).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The San Francisco 49ers announced that they have released kicker David Akers. &#8220;The 49ers would like to thank David for his service, dedication and leadership over the past two years,&#8221; said 49ers general manager Trent Baalke. &#8220;He is a true professional who represented himself and this organization with class. [&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":[10,9,8],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-49ers","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}