{"id":30243,"date":"2015-03-03T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-eagles-to-trade-lesean-mccoy-to-bills\/"},"modified":"2015-03-04T00:40:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T00:40:14","slug":"report-eagles-to-trade-lesean-mccoy-to-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-eagles-to-trade-lesean-mccoy-to-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Eagles to trade LeSean McCoy to Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Philadelphia Eagles have a deal in place to trade former NFL rushing champion LeSean McCoy to the Buffalo Bills for linebacker Kiko Alonso, ESPN.com reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, which would be a blockbuster, would reunite Eagles coach Chip Kelly with Alonso, who played four seasons under Kelly at Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Trades cannot be made official until the new league year begins at 4 p.m. next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>McCoy, 26, has blossomed in Kelly&#8217;s hurry-up offense, rushing for 2,926 yards and 14 touchdowns with 80 receptions for 694 yards and two scores over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>He led the NFL in both rushing yards and yards from scrimmage in 2013 but saw a dropoff in both categories last season. The six-year NFL veteran would have cost the Eagles close to $12 million against the salary cap in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso, 24, missed all of last season after having surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament suffered during an offseason workout in Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>The second-round draft pick led the Bills in tackles in 2013 as a rookie with 159. He had two sacks and four interceptions while starting all 16 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Philadelphia Eagles have a deal in place to trade former NFL rushing champion LeSean McCoy to the Buffalo Bills for linebacker Kiko Alonso, ESPN.com reported on Tuesday. The deal, which would be a blockbuster, would reunite Eagles coach Chip Kelly with Alonso, who played four seasons under Kelly at Oregon. Trades cannot [&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":[83,82,81,137,64,136],"class_list":["post-30243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-bills","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-eagles","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30243","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=30243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30244,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30243\/revisions\/30244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}