{"id":30574,"date":"2015-03-11T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/former-steelers-olb-worilds-calling-it-quits\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T01:01:00","slug":"former-steelers-olb-worilds-calling-it-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/former-steelers-olb-worilds-calling-it-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Steelers OLB Worilds calling it quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Former Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker Jason Worilds has decided to step away from football to pursue other interests.<\/p>\n<p>It is the third shocking retirement in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>30-year-old linebacker Patrick Willis and 26-year-old quarterback Jake Locker also decided to walk away from the game.<\/p>\n<p>Worilds released a statement through his player representative Jason Bernstein.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I appreciate all of the interest from the organizations that have reached out to us the past few days,&#8221; the statement reads. &#8220;With that being said, after much thought &amp; consideration I have chosen to step away from football as I have opted to pursue other interests.<\/p>\n<p>I am especially grateful of the opportunity to play before some of the greatest fans in football today. Despite any concern and speculation that may ensue, I appreciate those that are respectful of my decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Worilds was set to make a lot of money after recording 15 1\/2 sacks over his last two seasons with the Steelers, who he spent his entire six-year career with. He tallied 59 tackles and 7 1\/2 sacks with the team last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Former Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker Jason Worilds has decided to step away from football to pursue other interests. It is the third shocking retirement in the last 24 hours. 30-year-old linebacker Patrick Willis and 26-year-old quarterback Jake Locker also decided to walk away from the game. Worilds released a statement through his player [&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":[143,142,144],"class_list":["post-30574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30574","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=30574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}