{"id":51591,"date":"2020-07-20T17:34:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T21:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=51591"},"modified":"2020-07-20T17:34:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T21:34:54","slug":"jets-sign-rookie-qb-james-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2020\/07\/20\/jets-sign-rookie-qb-james-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Sign Rookie QB James  Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2020\/07\/20\/mehta-jets-sign-punter-braden-mann\/\"><strong>inking punter Braden Mann<\/strong><\/a> earlier in the day, the Jets have announced the signing of fellow rookie James Morgan, a quarterback who was taken in the 4th round (125th overall) of this year&#8217;s draft.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;ve signed rookie QB James Morgan. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BhBk4cthmO\">https:\/\/t.co\/BhBk4cthmO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CvcFDjaovI\">pic.twitter.com\/CvcFDjaovI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyjets\/status\/1285321110641311744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Morgan will have quite the learning curve as a mid-round quarterback who was already viewed as a project with a drastically reduced preseason that may not even include any games.\u00a0 With this being the case, don&#8217;t be surprised if the rookie finds himself inactive on game days if not stashed on IR altogether.<\/p>\n<p>A strong-armed gun slinger, the Jets hope he can develop into a long-term backup to Sam Darnold in the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After inking punter Braden Mann earlier in the day, the Jets have announced the signing of fellow rookie James Morgan, a quarterback who was taken in the 4th round (125th overall) of this year&#8217;s draft. We&#39;ve signed rookie QB James Morgan. \ud83d\udcf0 https:\/\/t.co\/BhBk4cthmO pic.twitter.com\/CvcFDjaovI &mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) July 20, 2020 Morgan will have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":50526,"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-51591","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\/2020\/04\/James-Morgan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-dq7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51591","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=51591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51593,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51591\/revisions\/51593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}