{"id":18621,"date":"2013-03-17T01:09:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T05:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=18621"},"modified":"2013-03-17T01:09:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T05:09:43","slug":"jets-re-sign-k-nick-folk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2013\/03\/17\/jets-re-sign-k-nick-folk\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Re-Sign K Nick Folk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets have seen several starters from last season leave the team in the first few days of free agency.\u00a0 One position that the Jets won&#8217;t need a replacement for is Kicker.\u00a0 The team re-signed Nick Folk on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>From the Jets PR Department:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The New York Jets have re-signed unrestricted free agent <b>K Nick Folk<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Folk (K\/6-1\/222\/Arizona\/Hollywood, CA)<\/b> has spent the last three seasons with the Jets after joining the team as a free agent (02\/23\/10). He was originally drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the sixth round of the 2007 NFL Draft, spending three years with the club before being waived (12\/21\/09). In six career seasons, Folk has appeared in 94 games and has converted 134-of-172 field goal attempts (77.9%) and all 242 PAT tries. In 2012, Folk kicked in 16 games and hit 21-of-27 field goals (77.8%) and all 30 of his PAT attempts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Several beat reporters confirmed the signing as well:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nick Folk signed a one-year contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rich Cimini (@RichCimini) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichCimini\/status\/313055756276596736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jets  resign Folk.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kristian Dyer (@KristianRDyer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KristianRDyer\/status\/313042498601754624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Here is some more information on <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/topic\/109960-jets-bring-back-nick-folk-as-kicker\/\">Nick Folk<\/a> from the Jet Nation forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets have seen several starters from last season leave the team in the first few days of free agency.\u00a0 One position that the Jets won&#8217;t need a replacement for is Kicker.\u00a0 The team re-signed Nick Folk on Saturday. From the Jets PR Department: The New York Jets have re-signed unrestricted free agent K Nick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15365,"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":[1337,213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-home-slider","8":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/folk.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-4Ql","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18623,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621\/revisions\/18623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}