{"id":4060,"date":"2011-03-03T14:41:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T19:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4060"},"modified":"2011-03-03T14:41:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T19:41:28","slug":"redskins-cut-portis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4060","title":{"rendered":"Redskins Cut Portis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; <strong>Clinton Portis<\/strong> was released by the Washington Redskins on Monday, ending a charismatic and sometimes contentious seven-year stay that, for a while at least, made him the face of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Injuries and money led to coach <strong>Mike Shanahan\u2019s<\/strong> decision. <strong>Portis <\/strong>had played in only 13 games over the last two seasons because of a severe concussion in 2009 and a torn groin muscle in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Portis<\/strong> was scheduled to make $8.3 million next season, and <strong>Shanahan<\/strong> made it clear at the NFL combine that the Redskins wouldn\u2019t keep the 29-year-old running back at that price.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Portis <\/strong>is 77 yards of 10,000 career rushing yards and leaves Washington 648 shy of one of his oft-stated goals \u2014 Hall of Famer <strong>John Riggins\u2019<\/strong> franchise record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Clinton Portis was released by the Washington Redskins on Monday, ending a charismatic and sometimes contentious seven-year stay that, for a while at least, made him the face of the franchise. Injuries and money led to coach Mike Shanahan\u2019s decision. Portis had played in only 13 games over the last two seasons because [&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-4060","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\/4060","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=4060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}