{"id":14482,"date":"2012-05-10T16:53:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T20:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14482"},"modified":"2012-05-10T16:53:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T20:53:34","slug":"bucs-take-long-look-at-former-lsu-quarterback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14482","title":{"rendered":"Bucs Take Long Look At Former LSU Quarterback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Buccaneers decided they needed to take a long look at former Louisiana State University quarterback, <strong>Jordan Jefferson<\/strong>. He showed enough at minicamp to be offered a contract with the Bucs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jefferson<\/strong> had been considered on the edge as an NFL talent. He\u00a0 ranked 315th out of the 315 players rated by NFL.com at the league\u2019s scouting combine in February.<\/p>\n<p>But the Bucs see some brilliance in <strong>Jefferson<\/strong>, a 6\u20195\u201d, 233 pound former team captain at LSU, and report he has an NFL-caliber arm.<\/p>\n<p>First-year head coach, <strong>Greg Schiano<\/strong> said he feels there\u2019s a lot of upside with<strong> Jefferson<\/strong>, and they are going to work with him and just take it from there.<\/p>\n<p>Before the national championship game,<strong> Jefferson<\/strong> threw for 684 yards and six touchdowns, but looked out of place against Alabama, completing 11 of 17 for 53 yards and an interception. He went undrafted and unsigned as a college free agent.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until the Bucs invited him to Tampa for a tryout at their rookie minicamp last weekend that<strong> Jefferson<\/strong> got a chance to prove he can play in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>He made the most of the opportunity and warranted a contract and an extended look through the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Buccaneers decided they needed to take a long look at former Louisiana State University quarterback, Jordan Jefferson. He showed enough at minicamp to be offered a contract with the Bucs. Jefferson had been considered on the edge as an NFL talent. He\u00a0 ranked 315th out of the 315 players rated by NFL.com [&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-14482","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\/14482","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=14482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}