{"id":13377,"date":"2012-03-15T15:26:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T19:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13377"},"modified":"2012-03-15T14:36:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T18:36:26","slug":"lions-make-wr-highest-paid-in-nfl-132m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13377","title":{"rendered":"Lions Make WR Highest Paid  In NFL: $132M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lions coach <strong>Jim Schwartz<\/strong> turned and looked over his left shoulder as his star receiver<strong> Calvin Johnson<\/strong> sat quietly in a corner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat deal is signed, right?\u201d <strong>Schwartz<\/strong> said. \u201cEverything\u2019s signed? I\u2019d have held out for more money, <strong>Calvin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Calvin\u2019s<\/strong> one of those guys that, and we\u2019ve said this about a few guys in our building now, that whatever you pay him is not enough. And he\u2019s truly a special player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lions made their special player the highest-paid receiver in the game Wednesday, signing Johnson to an 8-year, $132-million contract that would keep <strong>Johnson<\/strong> in Detroit through 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The deal includes a record $60 million in guarantees, topping the $50 million Rams quarterback <strong>Sam Bradford<\/strong> got in his rookie deal two years ago, and frees up about $9 million in cap space that the Lions can use in free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lions coach Jim Schwartz turned and looked over his left shoulder as his star receiver Calvin Johnson sat quietly in a corner. \u201cThat deal is signed, right?\u201d Schwartz said. \u201cEverything\u2019s signed? I\u2019d have held out for more money, Calvin. \u201cCalvin\u2019s one of those guys that, and we\u2019ve said this about a few guys in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}