{"id":373,"date":"2013-03-20T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/49ers-bring-in-k-dawson\/"},"modified":"2013-03-20T00:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T00:08:00","slug":"49ers-bring-in-k-dawson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/49ers-bring-in-k-dawson\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers bring in K Dawson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The San Francisco 49ers filled their kicking void Tuesday by signing veteran Phil Dawson to a one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning NFC champions released 38-year-old David Akers earlier this month and replaced him with the 38-year-old Dawson, who had spent his entire 14-year career with the Cleveland Browns.<\/p>\n<p>Dawson made the Pro Bowl last year for the first time after connecting on 29- of-31 field goals, including a perfect 7-of-7 from beyond 50 yards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are excited to add an accomplished veteran like Phil to our team,&#8221; said 49ers general manager Trent Baalke. &#8220;Phil has performed at a high level throughout his career and has a lot of experience managing the elements, which is a valuable asset.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dawson&#8217;s 84.0 career field goal percentage ranks ninth in NFL history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The San Francisco 49ers filled their kicking void Tuesday by signing veteran Phil Dawson to a one-year contract. The reigning NFC champions released 38-year-old David Akers earlier this month and replaced him with the 38-year-old Dawson, who had spent his entire 14-year career with the Cleveland Browns. Dawson made [&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":[10,9,8],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-49ers","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","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=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}