{"id":35557,"date":"2017-03-10T20:04:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T00:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=35557"},"modified":"2017-03-10T20:04:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T00:04:57","slug":"jets-sign-offensive-tackle-kelvin-beachum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2017\/03\/10\/jets-sign-offensive-tackle-kelvin-beachum\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Sign Offensive Tackle Kelvin Beachum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Glenn Naughton<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After a quiet first day of free Agency, the New York Jets have imported their first free agent, adding offensive tackle Kelvin Beachum.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">J-E-T-S Jets! Jets! Jets! \u2708\ufe0f\u2708\ufe0f\u2708\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>This just in! Congrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KelvinBeachumJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KelvinBeachumJr<\/a> on signing with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyjets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nyjets<\/a> today.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GangGreen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GangGreen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFLFreeAgency?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NFLFreeAgency<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ErDOpcLexA\">pic.twitter.com\/ErDOpcLexA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FOX Sports: PROcast (@PROcast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PROcast\/status\/840349414694694913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>A former Pittsburgh Steeler and Jacksonville Jaguar, Beachum became a free agent when he was cut loose by the Jags several weeks ago after struggling mightily in his first season in sunny Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Beachum was targeted by Gang Green last season prior to the retirement of D&#8217;Brickashaw Ferguson, but he opted instead to sign with Gus Bradley and company.<\/p>\n<p>Beachum gives the Jets an experienced young player who has spent time at both left and right tackle. \u00a0Despite the recent re-signing of one of their own free agents, Ben Ijalana, look for the two to compete for the starting left tackle spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Glenn Naughton &nbsp; After a quiet first day of free Agency, the New York Jets have imported their first free agent, adding offensive tackle Kelvin Beachum. J-E-T-S Jets! Jets! Jets! \u2708\ufe0f\u2708\ufe0f\u2708\ufe0f This just in! Congrats to @KelvinBeachumJr on signing with @nyjets today. #GangGreen #NFLFreeAgency pic.twitter.com\/ErDOpcLexA &mdash; FOX Sports: PROcast (@PROcast) March 10, 2017 A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":32016,"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":[2392],"class_list":{"0":"post-35557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-home-slider","8":"category-jet-news","9":"tag-kelvin-beachum"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Beachum.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-9fv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35557","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=35557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35558,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35557\/revisions\/35558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}