{"id":21442,"date":"2013-08-21T20:25:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T00:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=21442"},"modified":"2022-04-01T04:41:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T08:41:36","slug":"ny-jets-roster-moves-fb-hillard-to-ir-sign-wr-marcus-rucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2013\/08\/21\/ny-jets-roster-moves-fb-hillard-to-ir-sign-wr-marcus-rucker\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Jets Roster Moves: FB Hillard To IR, Sign WR Marcus Rucker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Jets placed fullback <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/jets\/index.ssf\/2013\/03\/jets_re-sign_fullback_lex_hill.html\"><strong>Lex Hilliard<\/strong><\/a> on reserve\/injured (IR) after suffering a season ending injury today.\u00a0 Hilliard started nine games in 2012 but broke his Scapula (shoulder blade) in camp on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have placed Lex Hilliard on Reserve \/ Injured and have signed WR Marcus Rucker.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyjets\/status\/370215552179912704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Resigned by the Jets to a one-year contract in May Hilliard had been sidelined for the team\u2019s first two preseason games.\u00a0 He was battling round seven pick <strong>Tommy Bohanon<\/strong> for a roster spot before the injury.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Additionally the Jets signed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotigersgo.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/mtt\/marcus_rucker_351510.html\">Marcus Rucker<\/a> in attempts to keep the competition at the wide receiver position hot through the preseason. The 23 year old Rucker (6&#8217;4&#8243;, 190 lbs) hopes he can translate some of the success he had in college at Memphis onto an NFL field and the NY Jets are giving him the opportunity to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Jets placed fullback Lex Hilliard on reserve\/injured (IR) after suffering a season ending injury today.\u00a0 Hilliard started nine games in 2012 but broke his Scapula (shoulder blade) in camp on Tuesday. We have placed Lex Hilliard on Reserve \/ Injured and have signed WR Marcus Rucker. &mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) August 21, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":11353,"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-21442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/logo1.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-5zQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21442"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21466,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442\/revisions\/21466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}