{"id":30504,"date":"2015-03-09T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/texans-release-wr-johnson\/"},"modified":"2015-03-09T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T17:24:00","slug":"texans-release-wr-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/texans-release-wr-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans release WR Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Texans have released wide receiver Andre Johnson after they were unable to work out a trade.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, 33, had two years remaining on his contract and would have counted $16.1 million against the salary cap in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After exhausting all options of a possible trade, we informed Andre Johnson that he would be released today,&#8221; Texans executive vice president of football operations and general manager Rick Smith said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No player in the history of this franchise has represented the team, city and community in a more professional way. Andre is a Hall of Fame caliber player and we appreciate his years of service and contributions to our team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was the longest-tenured and best offensive player in the history of the Texans, who drafted him third overall in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The Miami-Florida product caught 85 passes for 936 yards and three touchdowns in 15 games last season. A seven-time Pro Bowl selection, Johnson departs Houston after catching 1,012 passes for 13,597 yards and 64 touchdowns in 169 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Texans have released wide receiver Andre Johnson after they were unable to work out a trade. Johnson, 33, had two years remaining on his contract and would have counted $16.1 million against the salary cap in 2015. &#8220;After exhausting all options of a possible trade, we informed Andre Johnson [&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":[43,151,152],"class_list":["post-30504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-houston","tag-houston-texans","tag-texans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30504","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=30504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}