{"id":56796,"date":"2021-08-29T14:19:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T18:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=56796"},"modified":"2021-08-29T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T20:00:45","slug":"rapoport-jets-send-sixth-round-pick-to-49ers-for-shaq-lawson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2021\/08\/29\/rapoport-jets-send-sixth-round-pick-to-49ers-for-shaq-lawson\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapoport: Jets Send Sixth-Round Pick to Houston for Shaq Lawson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In need of a boost at defensive end after losing Carl Lawson for the 2021 season, Joe Douglas and the Jets have sent a sixth-round draft choice to the Houston Texans in exchange for Shaq Lawson.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Compensation update: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a> are sending the SF 6th to Houston for Lawson. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vH7ara8v5y\">https:\/\/t.co\/vH7ara8v5y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1432042283554295811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>A veteran of five NFL seasons, Lawson has averaged 4 sacks per year since entering the league as a member of the Buffalo Bills.\u00a0 His career high came in 2019 when he picked up 6.5 sacks and has a total of 20.5 as a member of the Bills and Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson will join a talented Jets front that suffered not only the loss of Lawson for the season, but of veteran defensive end Vinny Curry who will miss the season with a rare blood disorder.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets are expected to use second-year player Bryce Huff at defensive end along with John Franklin-Myers.\u00a0 While a talented prospect, Huff is an unproven commodity and Robert Saleh likes to use a heavy rotation to keep fresh legs on the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In need of a boost at defensive end after losing Carl Lawson for the 2021 season, Joe Douglas and the Jets have sent a sixth-round draft choice to the Houston Texans in exchange for Shaq Lawson. Compensation update: The #Jets are sending the SF 6th to Houston for Lawson. https:\/\/t.co\/vH7ara8v5y &mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":56797,"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-56796","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\/2021\/08\/Shaq-Lawson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-eM4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56796","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=56796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56800,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56796\/revisions\/56800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}