{"id":4016,"date":"2010-03-14T19:54:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T23:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2019-11-27T06:49:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T10:49:53","slug":"jets-sign-rb-ladainian-tomlinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2010\/03\/14\/jets-sign-rb-ladainian-tomlinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Sign RB LaDainian Tomlinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Ladainian Tomlinson\" src=\"http:\/\/jetnation.com\/graphics\/Articles\/lt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"248\" \/>The New York Jets have officially signed RB LaDainian Tomlinson to a two year contract.\u00a0 As per <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Adam_Schefter\/status\/10487471218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Schefter on Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Filed to ESPN:  it&#8217;s official. LaDainian Tomlinson is a Jet. He reached agreement on a  two-year contract. Done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As we <a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/?p=3999\">wrote over the weekend<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer coached Tomlinson in San  Diego.\u00a0 The NY Jets have running back Shonn Greene and Leon Washington  (if he doesn\u2019t leave as a restricted free agent) at the top of the depth  chart.\u00a0 This will come down to more than money, it will come down to  what LT believes his role would be in New York.<\/p>\n<p>How much does LT have left?\u00a0 With a 3.3 yard average last season, one  could speculate not that much.\u00a0 Remember though that the Chargers  averaged 3.3 yards on the ground as a team last year.\u00a0 Which means, they  did not do any better running the ball when LT wasn\u2019t on the field.<\/p>\n<p>The same can not be said for Thomas Jones and the NY Jets last  season.\u00a0 Thomas had a great season and there is more to the equation  than just numbers.\u00a0 But Thomas averaged 4.2 yards per carry and the Jets  average went up to 4.5 when TJ wasn\u2019t carrying the ball.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Welcome to the NY Jets LT.\u00a0 Jets fans, you can read fan reaction and discuss this move in our <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/\">New York Jets Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Jets have officially signed RB LaDainian Tomlinson to a two year contract.\u00a0 As per Adam Schefter on Twitter: Filed to ESPN: it&#8217;s official. LaDainian Tomlinson is a Jet. He reached agreement on a two-year contract. Done. As we wrote over the weekend: Offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer coached Tomlinson in San Diego.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-12M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46860,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions\/46860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}