{"id":394497,"date":"2022-11-08T16:35:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T21:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394497"},"modified":"2022-11-09T07:40:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T12:40:01","slug":"raiders-release-safety-johnathan-abram-in-surprise-move","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/raiders-release-safety-johnathan-abram-in-surprise-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders release safety Johnathan Abram in surprise move"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"main-content\" class=\"m-page m-detail mm-detail mm-feature\">\n<section class=\"m-component-detail\">\n<article class=\"m-story mm-feature\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"m-detail--contents l-content-well\">\n<section class=\"l-grid lm-grid--detail lm-grid--with-right-rail\">\n<div class=\"l-grid--content-body\">\n<div class=\"m-detail--body\">\n<p>The Las Vegas Raiders are releasing fourth-year safety Johnatan Abram after failing to deal him ahead of last week\u2019s trade deadline, according to reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A surprise: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Raiders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Raiders<\/a> are releasing former first-round pick safety Johnathan Abram, per source. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E8BjfpRvhT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/E8BjfpRvhT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/1590069194988867585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Abram, the No. 27 pick in the 2019 draft, was in the final year of his rookie contract after struggling Raiders decided not to exercise the fifth-year option on his deal this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s due a little over $1 million in base salary for the remainder of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Abram, who joined the Raiders out of Mississippi State, will now head to waivers, where all of the league\u2019s 31 other teams will have to a chance to claim him.<\/p>\n<p>Abram, who becomes just the latest Raiders draft pick to depart the organization in recent years, never quite met the high expectations set out for him in the NFL, racking up 255 total tackles and three interceptions across four years with Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders are 2\u20136 under first-year coach Josh McDaniels through eight games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<footer class=\"m-footer mm-footer--has-publisher-logo\">\n<div class=\"m-footer--container\">\n<div class=\"m-footer--maven-logo-cell\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"do-not-sell-button\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"m-fixedbottom-ad--container\">\n<div class=\"m-fixedbottom-ad--slot is-placeholder not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Las Vegas Raiders are releasing fourth-year safety Johnatan Abram after failing to deal him ahead of last week\u2019s trade deadline, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394498,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16757,16755],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Abram never quite met the high expectations set out for him in the NFL","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394497"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394497"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}