{"id":4427,"date":"2010-07-06T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=4427"},"modified":"2019-11-27T06:40:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T10:40:46","slug":"jamarcus-russell-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2010\/07\/06\/jamarcus-russell-update\/","title":{"rendered":"JaMarcus Russell Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/72.233.64.227\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/jamarcus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4428\" title=\"JaMarcus Russell Mugshot\" src=\"http:\/\/72.233.64.227\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/jamarcus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/jamarcus.jpg 432w, https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/jamarcus-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a>Several <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/\">media reports<\/a> last week had the New York Jets interested in signing recently released QB JaMarcus Russell.\u00a0 The thought was he could be a project and if they got him working hard they could have a very talented backup on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>What a difference a drug bust makes.<\/p>\n<p>Russell was arrested today for possession of codeine syrup which is a controlled substance.\u00a0 He did not have a presciption for it.\u00a0 As a result he is now off the Jets radar.\u00a0 According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/jets\/2010\/07\/free-agent-qb-jamarcus-russell.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manish Mehta of the NY Daily News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JaMarcus Russell effectively eliminated himself from becoming a Jet any  time this millennium with his latest bonehead move. The free agent  quarterback was arrested at his Alabama home today for possession of a  controlled substance during a police investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the roster stands today, Kellen Clemens is the back up quarterback.\u00a0 Although there have been plenty of rumblings about <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/thehuddle\/post\/2010\/06\/jets-appear-locked-onto-mark-brunell-not-jamarcus-russell-as-next-backup--even-if-players-prefer-incumbent-kellen-clemens\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bringing in Mark Brunell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us what you think in our <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/\">New York Jets forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several media reports last week had the New York Jets interested in signing recently released QB JaMarcus Russell.\u00a0 The thought was he could be a project and if they got him working hard they could have a very talented backup on the roster. What a difference a drug bust makes. Russell was arrested today for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-featured-editorials","7":"category-nfl-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-19p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427","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=4427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46823,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427\/revisions\/46823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}