{"id":611,"date":"2013-06-14T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/jackson-returns-to-seattle\/"},"modified":"2013-06-14T08:26:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T08:26:00","slug":"jackson-returns-to-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/jackson-returns-to-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson returns to Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renton, WA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Seattle Seahawks and quarterback Tarvaris Jackson have agreed to a contract.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson started 14 games for the Seahawks during the 2011 season and threw for a career-high 3,091 yards with 14 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks traded Jackson to Buffalo for a seventh-round draft pick last summer after Russell Wilson&#8217;s emergence in training camp and the free agent acquisition of Matt Flynn.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson did not see action for the Bills last season and was released earlier this week with the recently signed Kevin Kolb and first-round draft pick E.J. Manuel expected to be Buffalo&#8217;s top quarterbacks.<\/p>\n<p>With Wilson now the starter for Seattle and Flynn now in Oakland after a trade, Jackson will likely compete with Brady Quinn for the backup position with the Seahawks.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Seattle in 2011, Jackson spent his first five seasons in Minnesota, where he passed for 3,984 yards and 24 touchdowns over 36 games and 20 starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renton, WA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Seattle Seahawks and quarterback Tarvaris Jackson have agreed to a contract. Jackson started 14 games for the Seahawks during the 2011 season and threw for a career-high 3,091 yards with 14 touchdowns. The Seahawks traded Jackson to Buffalo for a seventh-round draft pick last summer after Russell Wilson&#8217;s emergence [&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":[132,131,130],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-seahawks","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-seahawks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}