{"id":37579,"date":"2017-10-04T14:16:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T18:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=37579"},"modified":"2017-10-04T14:16:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T18:16:19","slug":"lawrence-thomas-officially-makes-switch-to-fullback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2017\/10\/04\/lawrence-thomas-officially-makes-switch-to-fullback\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Thomas Officially Makes Switch to Fullback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Jets defensive lineman Lawrence Thomas lined up at fullback early in the teams match up with the Dolphins two weeks ago, nobody knew if it was a gimmick, a wild experiment, or a tryout.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you want to call it, the Jets obviously liked what they saw as Thomas got more looks at fullback again the following week against the Jacksonville Jaguars and threw a few key blocks to spring Bilal Powell free to break away and pick up some big gainers.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it appears to be a full-time gig.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lawrence Thomas changed numbers to 44. He is officially a fullback <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\/915628326164815877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Thomas emerged at practice in Florham Park today wearing number 44, a switch from his defensive line number of 97.<\/p>\n<p>A former college fullback at Michigan State before switching to the D-line, acting as a lead blocker isn&#8217;t entirely new for Thomas.\u00a0 If his early results are any indicator as to how he&#8217;ll play moving forward, the Jets may have one heck of a 285 lb battering ram filling the role of lead blocker better than anyone the Jets have had since Tony Richardson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jets defensive lineman Lawrence Thomas lined up at fullback early in the teams match up with the Dolphins two weeks ago, nobody knew if it was a gimmick, a wild experiment, or a tryout. Whatever you want to call it, the Jets obviously liked what they saw as Thomas got more looks at fullback [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":37445,"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":[213],"tags":[2457],"class_list":{"0":"post-37579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news","8":"tag-lawrence-thomas"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3601.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-9M7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37579","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=37579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37580,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37579\/revisions\/37580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}