{"id":3100,"date":"2013-07-31T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/broncos-bring-in-c-lilja\/"},"modified":"2013-07-31T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T20:32:00","slug":"broncos-bring-in-c-lilja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/broncos-bring-in-c-lilja\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos bring in C Lilja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Englewood, CO (Sports Network) &#8211; The Denver Broncos agreed to terms on a contract with center Ryan Lilja on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lilja joins Steve Vallos as the second new center the Broncos have added since starting center Dan Koppen sustained a season-ending ACL injury during Sunday&#8217;s practice.<\/p>\n<p>The 10th-year pro started 12 games at center for the Kansas City Chiefs last season before announcing his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Lilja began his career with the Indianapolis Colts, where he started 59 of 66 games at left guard in front of current Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old veteran has never allowed more than three sacks in a season and has started 104 of 111 career games between the Colts and the Chiefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Englewood, CO (Sports Network) &#8211; The Denver Broncos agreed to terms on a contract with center Ryan Lilja on Wednesday. Lilja joins Steve Vallos as the second new center the Broncos have added since starting center Dan Koppen sustained a season-ending ACL injury during Sunday&#8217;s practice. The 10th-year pro started 12 games at center for [&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":[127,126,125],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-broncos","tag-denver","tag-denver-broncos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","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=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}