{"id":629,"date":"2013-06-14T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/falcons-ink-second-round-pick-alford\/"},"modified":"2013-06-14T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T16:28:00","slug":"falcons-ink-second-round-pick-alford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/falcons-ink-second-round-pick-alford\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons ink second-round pick Alford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flowery Branch, GA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Atlanta Falcons on Friday signed cornerback Robert Alford, the team&#8217;s second-round draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>Alford enjoyed a standout career at FCS Southeastern Louisiana, earning first- team All-America honors as a senior last fall. He registered 137 career tackles, with 20 passes defensed, 10 interceptions and started 31-of-32 games for the Lions.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons chose the 5-foot-10, 186-pounder with the 60th overall selection, while he was the first FCS player to be picked in April&#8217;s draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flowery Branch, GA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Atlanta Falcons on Friday signed cornerback Robert Alford, the team&#8217;s second-round draft pick. Alford enjoyed a standout career at FCS Southeastern Louisiana, earning first- team All-America honors as a senior last fall. He registered 137 career tackles, with 20 passes defensed, 10 interceptions and started 31-of-32 games for [&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":[18,107,108],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-falcons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","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=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}