{"id":38544,"date":"2018-02-21T09:33:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T13:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=38544"},"modified":"2018-02-21T09:33:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T13:33:47","slug":"new-york-jets-football-pick-up-options-on-mcclendon-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2018\/02\/21\/new-york-jets-football-pick-up-options-on-mcclendon-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Pick up Options on McLendon, Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Jets have exercised the options on a pair of key defensive players for the 2018 season.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As expected, the Jets exercised options for NT Steve McLendon and LB Josh Martin, sources confirmed. (First&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7PlWLOHHog\">https:\/\/t.co\/7PlWLOHHog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rich Cimini (@RichCimini) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichCimini\/status\/966093321771810816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Underrated defensive lineman Steve McLendon and outside linebacker\/special teams ace Josh Martin both had their options picked up by Gang Green.\u00a0 We mentioned just a few days ago that both moves would make sense, but McLendon&#8217;s return was <a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2018\/02\/16\/new-york-jets-football-jets-decision-on-mcclendon-an-easy-one\/\"><strong>a no brainer<\/strong><\/a> as one of the better defensive players on the roster even if his work goes unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>Martin started a career-high 9 games, registering 31 tackles and 1.5 sacks.\u00a0 Meanwhile, McLendon posted a career-high of his own with 46 tackles as a versatile member of the Jets D-line.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Jets have exercised the options on a pair of key defensive players for the 2018 season. As expected, the Jets exercised options for NT Steve McLendon and LB Josh Martin, sources confirmed. (First&#8230; https:\/\/t.co\/7PlWLOHHog &mdash; Rich Cimini (@RichCimini) February 20, 2018 Underrated defensive lineman Steve McLendon and outside linebacker\/special teams ace Josh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":34640,"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":[2297,2538],"class_list":{"0":"post-38544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news","8":"tag-josh-martin","9":"tag-steve-mcclendon"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_3635-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-a1G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38544","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=38544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38545,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38544\/revisions\/38545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}