{"id":43971,"date":"2019-03-13T00:49:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T04:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=43971"},"modified":"2019-03-13T00:49:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T04:49:49","slug":"schefter-leveon-bell-plans-to-sign-with-the-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2019\/03\/13\/schefter-leveon-bell-plans-to-sign-with-the-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Schefter: Le\u2019Veon Bell Plans to Sign with the Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After much speculation, Adam Schefter is reporting that former Steelers running back Le&#8217;Veon Bell is planning on signing with the New York Jets. Adding Bell to the backfield gives Sam Darnold a dual threat back. Bell has played 5 seasons (he sat out 2018) and for his career he has 5,336 rushing yards and 2,600 receiving yards. He averages 62 receptions a year and has rushed for more than 1,000 yards in 3 of his 5 seasons.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former Steelers\u2019  RB Le\u2019Veon Bell plans to sign with\u2026the New York Jets, a league source tells ESPN<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1105684966048972806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Le\u2019Veon Bell: 4 years, $52.5 million with the Jets, per source.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1105686098079109120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Source confirms the Jets and RB Le\u2019Veon Bell have reached a deal that can become official tomorrow. <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\/1105687961151119360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>We will provide full analysis of the move and the impact on the roster. For now we leave you with what Le&#8217;Veon just tweeted himself. Be sure to check out what Jets fans are saying after <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/topic\/143657-leveon-bell-signs-with-jets\/\">Le&#8217;Veon Bell signs with the Jets<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m back in the green baby, let\u2019s get it<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Le&#39;Veon Bell (@LeVeonBell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeVeonBell\/status\/1105687935049961473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After much speculation, Adam Schefter is reporting that former Steelers running back Le&#8217;Veon Bell is planning on signing with the New York Jets. Adding Bell to the backfield gives Sam Darnold a dual threat back. Bell has played 5 seasons (he sat out 2018) and for his career he has 5,336 rushing yards and 2,600 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43976,"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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Bell-Jets.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-brd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43971","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43977,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43971\/revisions\/43977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}