{"id":31923,"date":"2016-03-10T13:55:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T17:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=31923"},"modified":"2016-03-10T18:44:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T22:44:19","slug":"back-to-back-jets-to-sign-pair-of-running-backs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2016\/03\/10\/back-to-back-jets-to-sign-pair-of-running-backs\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Sign RB Khiry Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heading in to the off-season with just one running back on the roster (Zac Stacy), the Jets were obviously going to have some work to do in re-stocking their depth chart, and they&#8217;ve wasted no time in doing so.\u00a0Gang Green came to terms on a deal with running back <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2016\/03\/09\/report-jets-to-sign-matt-forte\/\">Matt Forte<\/a><\/strong> less than 24 hours ago, and multiple reports have the Jets bringing back fan favorite <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2016\/03\/10\/schefter-jets-resign-bilal-powell\/\">Bilal Powell<\/a><\/strong> and a newcomer in former Saints running back Khiry Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson is a 6&#8242; 200 lb back out of West Texas A&amp;M. He has had limited reps as a pro after being buried on the New Orleans Saints depth chart. That story sounds very familiar to the situation Chris Ivory was in before he was traded to the Jets.<\/p>\n<p>In 28 pro games, only three of them starts, Robinson has been an effective runner, carrying the ball 186 times for 766 yards (4.1 YPC) and 8 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To sum up: Sources confirm <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a> have agreements in principle for RB Matt Forte, RB Khiry Robinson and RB Bilal Powell.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dennis Waszak Jr. (@DWAZ73) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DWAZ73\/status\/707990768703643648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2016<\/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\">Robinson broke his tibia last year in November. He had 180 yards rushing on 56 carries and 4 TDs. <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\/707986849294327808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><em>Be sure to check out our <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.JetNation.com\">NY Jets Forum<\/a><\/strong> for all the latest Jets news.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading in to the off-season with just one running back on the roster (Zac Stacy), the Jets were obviously going to have some work to do in re-stocking their depth chart, and they&#8217;ve wasted no time in doing so.\u00a0Gang Green came to terms on a deal with running back Matt Forte less than 24 hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":31934,"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":[1948,1337,213],"tags":[2391],"class_list":{"0":"post-31923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-home-slider","9":"category-jet-news","10":"tag-khiry-robinson"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Khiry-Robinson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-8iT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31923","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=31923"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31929,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31923\/revisions\/31929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}