{"id":35963,"date":"2017-05-06T03:35:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T07:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=35963"},"modified":"2017-05-06T03:35:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T07:35:18","slug":"jets-ink-pair-of-sixth-round-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2017\/05\/06\/jets-ink-pair-of-sixth-round-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets ink Pair of Sixth-Round Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Glenn Naughton<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Jets officially got the signing of their draft picks under way when they came to terms with two sixth-round draft choices in RB Elijah McGuire and CB Derrick Jones.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RB Elijah McGuire and CB Derrick Jones have signed their rookie contracts. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4KlDlDoMgu\">https:\/\/t.co\/4KlDlDoMgu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SXScRWjPry\">pic.twitter.com\/SXScRWjPry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyjets\/status\/860602446405652482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The pair of late-round picks will look to find a spot on the Jets 53-man roster or practice squad in 2017, with McGuire having the upper hand if he&#8217;s looking to stick as a return man given his ability as a return man, something head coach Todd Bowles cited as a reason for his selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Glenn Naughton &nbsp; The Jets officially got the signing of their draft picks under way when they came to terms with two sixth-round draft choices in RB Elijah McGuire and CB Derrick Jones. RB Elijah McGuire and CB Derrick Jones have signed their rookie contracts. \ud83d\udcf0 https:\/\/t.co\/4KlDlDoMgu pic.twitter.com\/SXScRWjPry &mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":35964,"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":[2648,2651],"class_list":{"0":"post-35963","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-derrick-jones","10":"tag-elijah-mcguire"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/McGuire.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-9m3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35963","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=35963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35965,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35963\/revisions\/35965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}