{"id":242,"date":"2017-11-21T19:48:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T19:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2017-11-21T19:48:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T19:48:56","slug":"matt-schaub-re-signs-with-atlanta-falcons-on-2-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/matt-schaub-re-signs-with-atlanta-falcons-on-2-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Schaub Re-Signs with Atlanta Falcons on 2-Year Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reactid=\"151\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/matt-schaub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Schaub<\/a>\u00a0re-signed with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/atlanta-falcons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a>\u00a0after free agency officially opened on Thursday night, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AtlantaFalcons\/status\/839874187137204224\">team announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"152\">According to ESPN&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/839570066060546066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Schefter<\/a>, the deal will be for two years and $9 million.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"153\">Schaub, 35, spent the last three seasons as a backup quarterback with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/oakland-raiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Raiders<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/baltimore-ravens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baltimore Ravens<\/a>\u00a0and Falcons. After serving as the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/houston-texans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston Texans<\/a>\u00a0starting quarterback for parts of seven seasons, Schaub has started just two games since the start of the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"154\">Overall, he&#8217;s thrown for\u00a024,867 yards, 133 touchdowns and 90 interceptions in 145 career regular-season games. He was a Pro Bowl selection in both 2009 and 2012 and has thrown for over 4,000 yards three times in his career.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"154\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/2687835-matt-schaub-re-signs-with-atlanta-falcons-on-2-year-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for full article\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Schaub\u00a0re-signed with the\u00a0Atlanta Falcons\u00a0after free agency officially opened on Thursday night, the\u00a0team announced. According to ESPN&#8217;s\u00a0Adam Schefter, the deal will be for two years and $9 million. Schaub, 35, spent the last three seasons as a backup quarterback with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/matt-schaub-re-signs-with-atlanta-falcons-on-2-year-contract\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}