{"id":28054,"date":"2015-03-20T18:49:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T22:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=28054"},"modified":"2022-04-01T03:02:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T07:02:04","slug":"jets-add-free-agent-defensive-lineman-kevin-vickerson-new-york-jets-kevin-vickerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2015\/03\/20\/jets-add-free-agent-defensive-lineman-kevin-vickerson-new-york-jets-kevin-vickerson\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets add Free Agent Defensive Lineman Kevin Vickerson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Glenn Naughton<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adding some depth to their stout defensive line, the New York Jets today signed eight-year veteran lineman Kevin Vickerson who spent 2014 with the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Free agent DL Kevin Vickerson has agreed to terms with the Jets <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nyj?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#nyj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Costello (@BrianCoz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianCoz\/status\/579037190543581184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>After being selected in the seventh round of the 2005 draft (216th overall) by the Miami Dolphins, Vickerson spent three seasons in Tennessee with the Titans followed by a four-year stint with the Broncos before spending the 2014 season in Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>In 86 career games, Vickerson totaled 120 tackles to go along with 6.5 sacks. \u00a0Having spent significant time at both defensive end and defensive tackle, the 6&#8242; 4&#8221; 295 lb Michigan State product gives defensive coordinator Kacy Rodgers a versatile veteran back-up to add to the defensive line mix.<\/p>\n<p>Vickerson&#8217;s contract is expected to be of the one-year variety for an unknown dollar amount at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Glenn Naughton &nbsp; Adding some depth to their stout defensive line, the New York Jets today signed eight-year veteran lineman Kevin Vickerson who spent 2014 with the Kansas City Chiefs. Free agent DL Kevin Vickerson has agreed to terms with the Jets #nyj &mdash; Brian Costello (@BrianCoz) March 20, 2015 After being selected in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":28055,"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":true,"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-28054","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\/2015\/03\/Kevin-Vickerson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-7iu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28054","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28058,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28054\/revisions\/28058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}