{"id":2786,"date":"2013-07-24T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bucs-ink-wr-williams-to-6-year-contract\/"},"modified":"2013-10-30T21:50:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T21:50:07","slug":"bucs-ink-wr-williams-to-6-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bucs-ink-wr-williams-to-6-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs ink WR Williams to 6-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have signed wide receiver Mike Williams to a six-year, $40.25 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased to have Mike signed to a long-term contract that ensures he will continue to be part of the exciting young core of players we are building around,&#8221; Buccaneers general manager Mark Dominik said in a statement Wednesday. &#8220;Mike has earned this contract through his hard work and production the past three seasons and we are looking forward to seeing him continue that career development as a Buccaneer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Williams was selected by the Buccaneers in the fourth round of the 2010 NFL Draft out of Syracuse. He has yet to miss a game in his first three years in the league, registering 193 catches for 2,731 yards and 23 touchdowns over 48 contests.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Williams posted 63 receptions for a career-high 996 yards and a team-best nine receiving touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have signed wide receiver Mike Williams to a six-year, $40.25 million contract. &#8220;We are pleased to have Mike signed to a long-term contract that ensures he will continue to be part of the exciting young core of players we are building around,&#8221; Buccaneers general manager Mark [&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":[68,67,66],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-buccaneers","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","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=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2812,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}