{"id":455233,"date":"2023-08-15T13:51:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T09:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455233"},"modified":"2023-08-15T14:05:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:05:59","slug":"ezekiel-elliott-signs-1-year-deal-with-new-england-patriots","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ezekiel-elliott-signs-1-year-deal-with-new-england-patriots\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel Elliott signs 1-year deal with New England Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time Pro Bowl RB <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/ezekiel-elliott\/\">Ezekiel Elliott<\/a> signed a one-year deal with the New England Patriots worth $4 million, AP reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the contract can be worth up to $6 million with incentives.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Elliott ran for 68 touchdowns and more than 8,000 yards in seven years with the Dallas Cowboys and led the NFL in rushing yards in 2016, when he was the runner-up for the AP Rookie of the Year award.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Patriots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Patriots<\/a> are expected to sign former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cowboys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Cowboys<\/a> star RB Ezekiel Elliott to a 1-year deal worth up to $6M after his successful FA visit earlier in camp, per me and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TomPelissero<\/a>. Some backfield help for NE and a new home for Zeke\u2026 who plans to rock his No. 15 from college. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LrdbpHp17h\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LrdbpHp17h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1691187974933774336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Elliott\u2019s yards per game have gone down every season of his career, which logically led to the decreased usage of running backs in the NFL since the Cowboys used the No. 4 overall draft pick to select him in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time Pro Bowl RB Ezekiel Elliott signed a one-year deal with the New England Patriots worth $4 million, AP reports. According to sources, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":455237,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17627,18403,17487],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18361,18404,18130],"acf":{"announce":"The contract is worth $4 million","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\/455233"}],"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=455233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455233"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455233"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}