{"id":346,"date":"2013-03-13T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/steelers-release-g-colon\/"},"modified":"2013-03-13T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T15:36:00","slug":"steelers-release-g-colon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/steelers-release-g-colon\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers release G Colon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Steelers have released veteran guard Willie Colon, the team announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Colon was the Steelers&#8217; fourth-round selection in the 2006 NFL Draft and started all 66 games in which he played between regular-season and postseason during his seven-year tenure with the team.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 29-year-old missed all but one game between the 2010 and 2011 seasons due to injuries and sat out five of Pittsburgh&#8217;s final six contests last year after undergoing knee surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Colon was the Steelers&#8217; regular right tackle from 2007-09 before being switched to left guard last season, where he started 11 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Steelers have released veteran guard Willie Colon, the team announced on Wednesday. Colon was the Steelers&#8217; fourth-round selection in the 2006 NFL Draft and started all 66 games in which he played between regular-season and postseason during his seven-year tenure with the team. However, the 29-year-old missed all [&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":[143,142,144],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}