{"id":570,"date":"2006-08-01T23:32:11","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T04:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2006-08-01T23:32:11","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T04:32:11","slug":"roster-moves-080106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2006\/08\/01\/roster-moves-080106\/","title":{"rendered":"Roster Moves &#8211; 08\/01\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jetnation.com\/graphics\/Articles\/helmet\/jets.bmp\" align=\"left\" \/>The New York Jets announced that Monsanto Pope has left the team citing &#8220;personal reasons&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0On Tuesday they also announced the signing of defensive back Jovon Johnson and that\u00c2\u00a0rookie linebacker Will Thompson was waived.\u00c2\u00a0 The announcements were made by Jets\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 General Manager Mike Tannenbaum.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Johnson, 5-9, 180 pounds, is a rookie free agent from the University of Iowa.\u00c2\u00a0 The native of Erie, Pa., ranks third on Iowa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all-time career interceptions list with 17, one shy of the school record.\u00c2\u00a0 He also led the Big Ten in 2005 with a 17.4 punt return average and ranks second in school annals in passes defensed with 32.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nWill Thompson, 6-3, 255, played in 50 games on the collegiate level for the Georgia Bulldogs.\u00c2\u00a0 He made 37 starts and collected 107 tackles, 24.5 tackles for losses, 14.5 sacks for 110 yards along with an interception, a pass defensed and recovered fumble.\u00c2\u00a0 He signed as a free agent with the Jets on May 12, 2006.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nJohnson has been assigned number four by the Jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Jets announced that Monsanto Pope has left the team citing &#8220;personal reasons&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0On Tuesday they also announced the signing of defensive back Jovon Johnson and that\u00c2\u00a0rookie linebacker Will Thompson was waived.\u00c2\u00a0 The announcements were made by Jets\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 General Manager Mike Tannenbaum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-9c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}