{"id":427751,"date":"2023-02-27T13:49:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T18:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=427751"},"modified":"2023-02-27T13:51:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T18:51:06","slug":"427751-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/427751-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints and defensive end Kpassagnon agree contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The New Orleans Saints brought back veteran defensive end Tanoh Kpassagnon on a two-year deal, the NFL team announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kpassagnon\u2019s deal is worth $6 million with $2.5 million guaranteed, according to Ian Rapaport of the NFL Network.<\/p>\n<p>Kpassagnon (pronounced Tawn-oh pass-N-yo), 6-7, 289, is a six-year National Football League veteran who was originally selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the second round (59th overall) of the 2017 NFL Draft out of Villanova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kpassagnon has been a steady and versatile player in a reserve role along the Saints defensive line. Last season, he finished the season with two sacks. He originally signed with the team as a free agent in 2021.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Saints?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Saints<\/a> agree to terms with defensive end Tanoh Kpassagnon on two-year contract extension \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3yFLGDDYlt\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/3yFLGDDYlt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New Orleans Saints (@Saints) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Saints\/status\/1630227036131164162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints brought back veteran defensive end Tanoh Kpassagnon on a two-year deal, the NFL team announced on Monday. Kpassagnon\u2019s deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":427752,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16920],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"In two seasons with the Saints, Kpassagnon has played in 23 games with ten starts and has recorded 46 tackles (30 solo)","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\/427751"}],"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=427751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427751"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=427751"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=427751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}