{"id":36027,"date":"2017-05-10T15:52:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=36027"},"modified":"2017-05-10T15:52:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:52:51","slug":"new-york-jets-to-host-free-agent-linebacker-gerald-hodges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2017\/05\/10\/new-york-jets-to-host-free-agent-linebacker-gerald-hodges\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets to Host Free Agent Linebacker Gerald Hodges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Glenn Naughton<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Still looking to upgrade their roster with just a few months until training camp kicks off, the Jets are meeting with free agent linebacker Gerald Hodges according to NFL insider Ian Rapoport.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/49ers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#49ers<\/a> LB Gerald Hodges is visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a> today, source said. Played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Vikings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Vikings<\/a> before that.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/862325847277154304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>One of the top free agents still remaining on the market, Hodges is a former fourth-round draft choice of the Minnesota Vikings where he played his first two-plus seasons before catching on with the San Francisco 49ers. \u00a0The 6&#8242; 1&#8221; 243 lb New Jersey Native turned in his best performance in 2016 when he racked up 80 tackles, 3 sacks and 2 interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>A former college safety, Hodges is one of the better coverage linebackers in the league and earned himself an overall grade of 82.4 from Pro Football Focus (PFF) with a 73.8 in coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Hodges previously met with the Chiefs and Seahawks earlier this off-season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Glenn Naughton &nbsp; Still looking to upgrade their roster with just a few months until training camp kicks off, the Jets are meeting with free agent linebacker Gerald Hodges according to NFL insider Ian Rapoport. Former #49ers LB Gerald Hodges is visiting the #Jets today, source said. Played for the #Vikings before that. &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":36028,"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":[2671],"class_list":{"0":"post-36027","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-gerald-hodges"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Gerald-Hodges.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-9n5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36027","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=36027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36029,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36027\/revisions\/36029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}