{"id":30227,"date":"2015-09-30T21:34:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T01:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=30227"},"modified":"2015-09-30T21:34:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T01:34:43","slug":"seventh-rounder-simon-let-go-by-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2015\/09\/30\/seventh-rounder-simon-let-go-by-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventh-Rounder Simon Let go by Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Glenn Naughton<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Ian Rapoport of the NFL network, the New York Jets have released their seventh-round draft selection, rookie nose tackle Dion Simon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a> have released DT Deon Simon, their 7th round pick, source said.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/649309200326094848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Considered a long shot to make the final 53 man roster given the Jets wealth of talent along the defensive line, Simon was retained for the season&#8217;s first three games but hadn&#8217;t played a single snap.<\/p>\n<p>The Northwestern St. (La) product caught the attention of scouts at the NFL combine when he led all other defensive linemen in the bench press with 35 reps.<\/p>\n<p>While Simon is no longer on the Jets 53-man roster, time will tell if he&#8217;s a player than plan on adding to their practice squad in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Glenn Naughton &nbsp; According to Ian Rapoport of the NFL network, the New York Jets have released their seventh-round draft selection, rookie nose tackle Dion Simon. The #Jets have released DT Deon Simon, their 7th round pick, source said. &mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) September 30, 2015 Considered a long shot to make the final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":30228,"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-30227","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\/09\/IMG_7960.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-7Rx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30227","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=30227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30229,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30227\/revisions\/30229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}