{"id":430628,"date":"2023-03-22T18:26:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T22:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=430628"},"modified":"2023-03-22T18:26:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T22:26:14","slug":"david-long-jr-joins-the-raiders-as-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/david-long-jr-joins-the-raiders-as-free-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"David Long Jr. joins the Raiders as free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cornerback <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/david-long-jr-2\/\">David Long Jr.<\/a> has reportedly signed a one-year deal as a free transfer with the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/circuit\/las-vegas\/\">Las Vegas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/las-vegas-raiders\/\"> Raiders<\/a>, the club announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Official \ud83d\udd8b\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>We have signed unrestricted free agent CB David Long Jr. \u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/toFh5Cg7lH\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/toFh5Cg7lH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gg3dzvLJ5v\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gg3dzvLJ5v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Las Vegas Raiders (@Raiders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Raiders\/status\/1638594865369055232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nLong entered the NFL League back in 2019 as a third-round Draft pick by the Rams out of Michigan. Since then he has managed to bag a total of 77 tackles, 7 passes defensed and one interceptions in 52 games (10 of which as a regular starter) during his spell with Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>His best season came in 2021, when he achieved career-high 40 tackles and 4 passes defenses, including his first caree interception. He started in five out of the 16 games he played, helping the Rams on their path to the Super Bowl-winning playoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornerback David Long Jr. has reportedly signed a one-year deal as a free transfer with the Las Vegas Raiders, the club announced on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":430629,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16755],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The cornerback will be looking to bolster the Las Vegas team","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\/430628"}],"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=430628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430628"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=430628"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=430628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}