{"id":51600,"date":"2020-07-21T04:31:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T08:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=51600"},"modified":"2020-07-21T04:31:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T08:31:56","slug":"becton-is-in-the-bag-jets-ink-first-round-draft-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2020\/07\/21\/becton-is-in-the-bag-jets-ink-first-round-draft-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Becton is in the bag; Jets ink First-Round Draft Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets got themselves a big catch late last night when the team came to terms on a fully guaranteed $18 million contract for first round draft choice Mekhi Becton.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OFFICIAL: We&#39;ve signed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BigTicket73?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BigTicket73<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xAGniavh4u\">https:\/\/t.co\/xAGniavh4u<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/55WjuUzubk\">pic.twitter.com\/55WjuUzubk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyjets\/status\/1285366906036408328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The big left tackle out of Louisville is expected to be a day one starter for Gang Green and to be Sam Darnold&#8217;s number one bodyguard for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets have largely neglected the offensive line in the early rounds since the days of D&#8217;Brickashaw Ferguson and Nick Mangold who went on to become the foundation of some of the best Jets teams in franchise history.\u00a0 The Jets are surely hoping the Becton&#8217;s selection will be a big first step in making the team relevant once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets got themselves a big catch late last night when the team came to terms on a fully guaranteed $18 million contract for first round draft choice Mekhi Becton. OFFICIAL: We&#39;ve signed @BigTicket73! \ud83d\udcf0 https:\/\/t.co\/xAGniavh4u pic.twitter.com\/55WjuUzubk &mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) July 21, 2020 The big left tackle out of Louisville is expected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":50433,"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":[3165,2856],"class_list":{"0":"post-51600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news","8":"tag-mekhi-becton","9":"tag-sam-darnold"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mekhi-Becton-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-dqg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51600","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=51600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51602,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51600\/revisions\/51602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}