{"id":385,"date":"2013-03-20T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/urlacher-bears-part-ways-after-13-years\/"},"modified":"2013-03-20T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T18:45:00","slug":"urlacher-bears-part-ways-after-13-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/urlacher-bears-part-ways-after-13-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Urlacher, Bears part ways after 13 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Forest, IL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Chicago Bears and their all-time leading tackler, Brian Urlacher, have parted ways after failing to agree on a contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears made the announcement on Wednesday, sending the 34-year-old linebacker into free agency for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brian has been an elite player in our league for over a decade,&#8221; Bears general manager Phil Emery said. &#8220;He showed great leadership and helped develop a winning culture over his time with the Bears. We appreciate all he has given our team, on and off the field. Brian will always be welcome as a member of the Bears.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Urlacher, an eight-time Pro Bowl selection, was the Bears&#8217; first-round pick (ninth overall) in the 2000 draft and has totaled 1,779 tackles, 41 1\/2 sacks, and 22 interceptions during his career.<\/p>\n<p>The University of New Mexico product won the Rookie of the Year award and was named the Defensive Player of the Year in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Urlacher played 12 games last season due to injuries, only the third time in his 13-year career he did not play the full slate of games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Forest, IL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Chicago Bears and their all-time leading tackler, Brian Urlacher, have parted ways after failing to agree on a contract. The Bears made the announcement on Wednesday, sending the 34-year-old linebacker into free agency for the first time in his career. &#8220;Brian has been an elite player in our [&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-385","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\/385","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=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}