{"id":430428,"date":"2023-03-20T16:47:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T20:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=430428"},"modified":"2023-03-20T17:04:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T21:04:11","slug":"raiders-signs-former-texans-tight-end-o-j-howard","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/raiders-signs-former-texans-tight-end-o-j-howard\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders sign former Texans tight end O.J. Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/o-j-howard\/\">O.J. Howard<\/a> signed with the Raiders following a visit on Monday, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported and the club announced the deal officially.<\/p>\n<p>The former first-round pick of the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\/\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> spent 2022 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/houston-texans\/\">Houston Texans<\/a>, catching 10 passes for 145 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders were in the market for TE help after trading <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/darren-waller\/\">Darren Waller<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/new-york-giants\/\">New York Giants<\/a> last week while <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/foster-moreau\/\">Foster Moreau<\/a> continues to be a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Howard joins a tight ends room in Vegas with <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/jesper-horsted\/\">Jesper Horsted<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/cole-fotheringham\/\">Cole Fotheringham<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.J. Howard signed with the Raiders following a visit on Monday, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported and the club announced the deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":430429,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16755,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18120,17873,18344],"acf":{"announce":"He spent 2022 with the Houston Texans","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\/430428"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430428"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=430428"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=430428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}