{"id":29690,"date":"2015-02-17T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/chiefs-part-with-wrs-avery-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2015-02-17T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T15:29:00","slug":"chiefs-part-with-wrs-avery-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/chiefs-part-with-wrs-avery-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs part with WRs Avery, Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Chiefs cut ties with a pair of disappointing wide receivers on Tuesday, releasing veteran Donnie Avery and placing former first-round pick A.J. Jenkins on waivers.<\/p>\n<p>Avery finished third among Chiefs players with 596 receiving yards on 40 catches in 2013, but was used sparingly last season while missing time due to surgery to repair a sports hernia. The six-year pro managed just 15 catches totaling 176 yards and appeared in just six games.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old was entering the final season of a three-year, $8.55 million deal he signed with Kansas City in March of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins, taken 30th overall by San Francisco in the 2012 draft, has recorded only 17 catches for 223 yards with no touchdowns over three NFL seasons. The 25-year-old played in nine games for the Chiefs in 2014, finishing with a mere nine receptions for 93 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City acquired Jenkins in a trade with the 49ers prior to the 2013 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Chiefs cut ties with a pair of disappointing wide receivers on Tuesday, releasing veteran Donnie Avery and placing former first-round pick A.J. Jenkins on waivers. Avery finished third among Chiefs players with 596 receiving yards on 40 catches in 2013, but was used sparingly last season while [&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":[111,110,109],"class_list":["post-29690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-chiefs","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29690","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=29690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}