{"id":708,"date":"2013-06-19T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/49ers-ink-dt-justin-smith-to-extension\/"},"modified":"2013-06-19T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T13:06:00","slug":"49ers-ink-dt-justin-smith-to-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/49ers-ink-dt-justin-smith-to-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers ink DT Justin Smith to extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The San Francisco 49ers have signed defensive tackle Justin Smith to a two-year contract extension through the 2015 season.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Pro Bowl selection has totaled 536 tackles and 32 sacks since joining the 49ers in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Justin&#8217;s All-Pro contributions on the field, as well as his leadership on and off the field, are integral to our success as a team,&#8221; 49ers general manager Trent Baalke said in a statement Wednesday. &#8220;Justin consistently sets a standard of excellence, serving as an example for everyone within our organization. This contract allows Justin to finish his career as a 49er!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old has registered 1,163 tackles, 75 1\/2 sacks and three interceptions in 189 career games, all but four of which have been starts, with Cincinnati and San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengals selected the Missouri product with the fourth overall pick in the 2001 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The San Francisco 49ers have signed defensive tackle Justin Smith to a two-year contract extension through the 2015 season. The four-time Pro Bowl selection has totaled 536 tackles and 32 sacks since joining the 49ers in 2008. &#8220;Justin&#8217;s All-Pro contributions on the field, as well as his leadership on [&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-708","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\/708","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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}