{"id":433085,"date":"2023-04-11T16:20:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T20:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433085"},"modified":"2023-04-11T13:49:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T17:49:21","slug":"lions-trades-jeff-okudah-to-falcons-for-2023-fifth-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lions-trades-jeff-okudah-to-falcons-for-2023-fifth-round-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions trades Jeff Okudah to Falcons for 2023 fifth-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lions traded CB Jeff Okudah to Falcons in exchange for a 2023 fifth-round pick, NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero reported Tuesday and player&#8217;s agent confirmed later.<\/p>\n<p>The compensation for Okudah &#8212; who is entering his fourth NFL season in 2023 &#8212; seems to be low for a player once selected inside the top five choices of a draft, but fits what the cornerback has produced to this point in his career.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: The Falcons are acquiring Lions CB Jeff Okudah, his agent told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FieldYates?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FieldYates<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2GXBRA63ie\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2GXBRA63ie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1645821370515828740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>He is having struggles to stay permanently on the field, playing in more than nine games just once in his three seasons. He&#8217;s registered two interceptions in 25 career games, and 2023 was shaping up to be a pivotal season for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is a young player. He still has a ways to go. He came in and got hurt his first year. Then obviously he got hurt his second year. He had a chance to really play this year and he understands there&#8217;s always going to be competition and we&#8217;re always going to create that competition.&#8221;, Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn said of Okudah in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lions traded CB Jeff Okudah to Falcons in exchange for a 2023 fifth-round pick, NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero reported Tuesday and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":433086,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17488,16776],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18585,18736],"acf":{"announce":"The CB was considered one of the brightest starts couple of years ago, but he's been struggling in 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\/433085"}],"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=433085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433085"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433085"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}