{"id":340,"date":"2013-03-13T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/browns-reach-agreement-with-groves\/"},"modified":"2013-03-13T12:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T12:51:00","slug":"browns-reach-agreement-with-groves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/browns-reach-agreement-with-groves\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns reach agreement with Groves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berea, OH (Sports Network) &#8211; The Cleveland Browns made another move to bolster their defense, agreeing on a two-year contract with linebacker Quentin Groves on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Groves departs from Arizona, where he spent the 2012 season and set career- highs with 45 tackles and four sacks. The former second-round draft pick appeared in all 16 contests for the Cardinals, making seven starts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Quentin is a solid player who will be another good addition to our front seven,&#8221; said Browns head coach Rob Chudzinski. &#8220;He showed pass rush ability last season, working in a 3-4 defense for the first time. Having played for (defensive coordinator) Ray (Horton) last year, he is familiar with our scheme, and that will allow him to make a smooth transition. He also has been a productive special teams player and can help us in that area as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Originally selected by the Jaguars in 2008, Groves played two seasons in Jacksonville before spending the 2010-11 seasons with the Oakland Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of his career, the former Auburn product has registered 152 tackles and 6 1\/2 sacks in 79 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berea, OH (Sports Network) &#8211; The Cleveland Browns made another move to bolster their defense, agreeing on a two-year contract with linebacker Quentin Groves on Wednesday. Groves departs from Arizona, where he spent the 2012 season and set career- highs with 45 tackles and four sacks. The former second-round draft pick appeared in all 16 [&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":[77,54,76],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-browns","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-browns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","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=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}