{"id":322,"date":"2013-03-12T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bears-melton-signs-franchise-tender\/"},"modified":"2013-03-12T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T18:39:00","slug":"bears-melton-signs-franchise-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bears-melton-signs-franchise-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears&#8217; Melton signs franchise tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Forest, IL (Sports Network) &#8211; Chicago Bears defensive tackle Henry Melton signed his tender offer as the team&#8217;s designated franchise player on Tuesday, with the four-year pro slated to earn $8.45 million for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears slapped the franchise tag on Melton prior to the Mar. 2 deadline after he put together a strong 2012 campaign in which the Texas product racked up 43 tackles, a career-best six sacks and two forced fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago can still attempt to negotiate a long-term contract with Melton, who has recorded 13 sacks over the past two seasons. The team has until July 15 to reach an agreement with the 26-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Forest, IL (Sports Network) &#8211; Chicago Bears defensive tackle Henry Melton signed his tender offer as the team&#8217;s designated franchise player on Tuesday, with the four-year pro slated to earn $8.45 million for the upcoming season. The Bears slapped the franchise tag on Melton prior to the Mar. 2 deadline after he put together [&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":[157,30,156],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-bears","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","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=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}