{"id":7067,"date":"2013-10-29T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/browns-ink-wr-edwards\/"},"modified":"2013-10-29T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T19:11:00","slug":"browns-ink-wr-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/browns-ink-wr-edwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns ink WR Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berea, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cleveland Browns have signed wide receiver Armanti Edwards, the team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards, released by Carolina earlier this month following a disappointing four-year stint with the Panthers, will likely be counted on to help bolster a return game that lost the dangerous Travis Benjamin to a season-ending torn ACL in Sunday&#8217;s 23-17 loss at Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin, who returned a punt 79 yards for a touchdown against Buffalo in Week 5 and had an 86-yard kickoff return at Green Bay on Oct. 20, was placed on injured reserve Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards averaged 19.7 yards on kick returns and 7.0 yards on punt over 39 games with the Panthers, who drafted the two-time Walter Payton Award winner in the third round of the 2010 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland also signed offensive tackle Reid Fragel off Cincinnati&#8217;s practice squad. The Ohio State product was a seventh-round pick of the Bengals in April&#8217;s draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berea, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cleveland Browns have signed wide receiver Armanti Edwards, the team announced Tuesday. Edwards, released by Carolina earlier this month following a disappointing four-year stint with the Panthers, will likely be counted on to help bolster a return game that lost the dangerous Travis Benjamin to a season-ending torn ACL in [&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":[77,54,76],"class_list":["post-7067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-browns","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-browns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067","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=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}