{"id":12697,"date":"2012-05-23T13:32:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=12697"},"modified":"2012-05-23T13:32:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:32:16","slug":"jets-sign-journeyman-fullback-ful-vakapuna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2012\/05\/23\/jets-sign-journeyman-fullback-ful-vakapuna\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Sign Journeyman Fullback &#8211; Ful Vakapuna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets have signed free agent fullback<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotoworld.com\/player\/nfl\/5426\/fui-vakapuna\"> Ful Vakapuna<\/a>.\u00a0 Originally a seventh round draft pick of the Cincinnati Bengals in 2009 Vakapuna played collegiately at Brigham Young University.\u00a0 He is probably better known for appearing on the HBO show \u201cHard Knocks\u201d then anything he\u2019s done on the football field.<\/p>\n<p>Cut by the Bengals before the 2009 season Vakapuna ended up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/cincinnati.com\/blogs\/bengals\/2009\/11\/03\/vakapuna-back-with-bengals\/\">Arizona Cardinals practice squad <\/a>before being re-acquired by the Bengals added him to their 53-man roster.\u00a0 Vakapuna was <a href=\"http:\/\/cincinnati.com\/blogs\/bengals\/2010\/07\/16\/camp-rostertology-running-backs\/\">expected to make the Bengals <\/a>in 2010 but was released due to a shoulder injury.\u00a0 He was released again in 2011 by the Bengals and signed with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/teams\/indianapoliscolts\/transactions?team=IND\">Indianapolis Colts practice squad <\/a>in October only to be removed by November.<\/p>\n<p>There have been rumors that the Jets are not please with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/jets\/index.ssf\/2012\/05\/jets_to_sign_free-agent_fullba.html\"> incumbent fullback John \u201cThe Terminator\u201d Connor <\/a>and would like to bring in some competition.\u00a0 Given that Vakapuna has never appeared in an NFL game over three seasons\u00a0he\u2019ll be a long shot to even make the roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets have signed free agent fullback Ful Vakapuna.\u00a0 Originally a seventh round draft pick of the Cincinnati Bengals in 2009 Vakapuna played collegiately at Brigham Young University.\u00a0 He is probably better known for appearing on the HBO show \u201cHard Knocks\u201d then anything he\u2019s done on the football field. Cut by the Bengals before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-3iN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12700,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12697\/revisions\/12700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}