{"id":30688,"date":"2015-03-12T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/eagles-sign-mathews-murray-next\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:32:00","slug":"eagles-sign-mathews-murray-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/eagles-sign-mathews-murray-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles sign Mathews; Murray next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Philadelphia Eagles, apparently close to a deal with NFL rushing champion DeMarco Murray, announced Thursday they have agreed to terms on a three-year contract with veteran running back Ryan Mathews.<\/p>\n<p>With reports swirling that Chip Kelly and the Eagles were about to sign Murray away from the Dallas Cowboys, the team confirmed earlier reports that it had locked up Mathews.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles, of course, were in the market for a running back after trading LeSean McCoy to the Buffalo Bills this week.<\/p>\n<p>Mathews appeared poised to be McCoy&#8217;s replacement, but might have to settle for a backup role if Murray also signs. The 27-year-old has spent each of his five NFL seasons with the San Diego Chargers, who drafted him No. 12 overall in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>He had two 1,000-yard seasons with San Diego, in 2011 and 2013, but rushed for just 330 yards and three touchdowns in six games last season while dealing with knee and ankle injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Mathews has gained 4,061 yards and scored 23 rushing touchdowns in 60 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Philadelphia Eagles, apparently close to a deal with NFL rushing champion DeMarco Murray, announced Thursday they have agreed to terms on a three-year contract with veteran running back Ryan Mathews. With reports swirling that Chip Kelly and the Eagles were about to sign Murray away from the Dallas Cowboys, the [&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":[137,64,136],"class_list":["post-30688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-eagles","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30688","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=30688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}