{"id":38815,"date":"2018-03-29T07:37:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T11:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=38815"},"modified":"2018-03-29T07:37:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T11:37:54","slug":"jets-add-another-free-agent-linebacker-in-hewitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2018\/03\/29\/jets-add-another-free-agent-linebacker-in-hewitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets add Another Free Agent Linebacker in Hewitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Jets have had their share of struggles on special teams in recent years and it appears they&#8217;re serious about fixing the problem this off-season.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Free agent LB Neville Hewitt signed a one year deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a>, source said.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/979101841970679809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Gang Green signed yet another free agent linebacker with a significant amount of special teams experience by inking former Miami Dolphin Neville Hewitt.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to playing on specials, Hewitt offers versatility with the ability to play both inside or outside linebacker if needed.\u00a0 Even with a new deal in hand, Hewitt is far from a lock to make the Jets roster as they&#8217;ve also added linebackers Brandon Copeland and Kevin Pierre-Louis in recent weeks, both of whom will compete with a suddenly crowded linebacker group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Jets have had their share of struggles on special teams in recent years and it appears they&#8217;re serious about fixing the problem this off-season. Free agent LB Neville Hewitt signed a one year deal with the #Jets, source said. &mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 28, 2018 Gang Green signed yet another free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":38816,"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":[2848],"class_list":{"0":"post-38815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news","8":"tag-neville-hewitt"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Hewitt.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-a63","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38815","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=38815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38817,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38815\/revisions\/38817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}