{"id":277,"date":"2013-03-11T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/broncos-release-williams-hanie\/"},"modified":"2013-03-11T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T17:35:00","slug":"broncos-release-williams-hanie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/broncos-release-williams-hanie\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos release Williams, Hanie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Englewood, CO (Sports Network) &#8211; The Denver Broncos announced they have released linebacker D.J. Williams and quarterback Caleb Hanie on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We appreciate the contributions made by D.J. Williams during his time with the Broncos,&#8221; said Broncos executive vice president of football operations John Elway. &#8220;He was a solid player with this team for a number of years, showing a lot of versatility at linebacker. Our organization wishes D.J. all the best going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 30, played in seven games last season before being suspended by the NFL for failing a mandatory league drug test.<\/p>\n<p>Over a nine-year career, all with Denver, Williams has recorded 824 tackles, 20 1\/2 sacks and two interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Hanie, 27, was inactive for all 16 games in 2012. In 10 games &#8212; including four starts &#8212; with the Bears (2008-11) and Broncos, he has 679 passing yards, three touchdowns, 10 interceptions and a 50.9 completion percentage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Englewood, CO (Sports Network) &#8211; The Denver Broncos announced they have released linebacker D.J. Williams and quarterback Caleb Hanie on Monday. &#8220;We appreciate the contributions made by D.J. Williams during his time with the Broncos,&#8221; said Broncos executive vice president of football operations John Elway. &#8220;He was a solid player with this team for a [&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],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-broncos","tag-denver","tag-denver-broncos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}