{"id":14355,"date":"2012-05-03T17:30:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T21:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14355"},"modified":"2012-05-03T17:30:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T21:30:54","slug":"bucs-sign-paralyzed-player-eric-legrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14355","title":{"rendered":"Bucs Sign  Paralyzed Player Eric LeGrand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eric LeGrand\u2019s<\/strong> football coach at Rutgers helped him emotionally in the months after his on-field paralysis. Now, the coach is symbolically helping him realize his dream of making it to the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, now coached by ex-Rutgers head coach, <strong>Greg Schiano<\/strong>, announced Wednesday they\u2019ve signed the former defensive tackle, who was partially paralyzed in a 2010 game, to their 90-man off-season roster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schiano<\/strong> offered the symbolic deal to his former player by phone Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>LeGrand<\/strong> collided with an Army kick returner while making a tackle on October 16, 2010, injuring his spinal cord and leaving him paralyzed from the neck down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric LeGrand\u2019s football coach at Rutgers helped him emotionally in the months after his on-field paralysis. Now, the coach is symbolically helping him realize his dream of making it to the NFL. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, now coached by ex-Rutgers head coach, Greg Schiano, announced Wednesday they\u2019ve signed the former defensive tackle, who was partially [&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-14355","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\/14355","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=14355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}