{"id":30627,"date":"2015-03-11T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bucs-release-de-michael-johnson\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T18:23:00","slug":"bucs-release-de-michael-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bucs-release-de-michael-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs release DE Michael Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Buccaneers released veteran defensive end Michael Johnson on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson completed just one season of a five-year, $43.75 million contract he signed in 2014. Tampa Bay still owes him $7 million, but releasing Johnson saves the Bucs $2 million towards this year&#8217;s salary cap.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Johnson dealt with an ankle injury in 2015 and played in 14 games, accumulating four sacks and 27 tackles.<\/p>\n<p>In five seasons with the Bengals before arriving in Tampa, Johnson totaled 26 1\/2 sacks, including a career-best 11 1\/2 in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Buccaneers released veteran defensive end Michael Johnson on Wednesday. Johnson completed just one season of a five-year, $43.75 million contract he signed in 2014. Tampa Bay still owes him $7 million, but releasing Johnson saves the Bucs $2 million towards this year&#8217;s salary cap. The 28-year-old Johnson dealt [&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-30627","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\/30627","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=30627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}