{"id":456829,"date":"2023-08-28T03:15:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T23:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456829"},"modified":"2023-08-28T03:15:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T23:15:23","slug":"patriots-acquire-wheatley-jr-for-strong-jr","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/patriots-acquire-wheatley-jr-for-strong-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots acquire Wheatley Jr. for Strong Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New England Patriots got OT <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/tyrone-wheatley-jr\/\">Tyrone Wheatley Jr.<\/a> from the Cleveland Browns in a trade for RB <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/pierre-strong-jr\/\">Pierre Strong Jr.<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>Tyrone, the son of ex-Michigan standout and NFL RB Tyrone Wheatley, will potentially solve the Pats&#8217; greatest need for the upcoming campaign. Injuries and not great performances during the training camp and the preseason from the offensive line have been a huge issue for the organization, and the new offensive tackle will be crucial to see improvements.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Patriots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Patriots<\/a> have traded RB Pierre Strong Jr to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Browns?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Browns<\/a> for OT Tyrone Wheatley Jr, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RapSheet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Browns adding to their RB room. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YsNZDsZ4Ki\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YsNZDsZ4Ki<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasrifootball\/status\/1695817889666703412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Browns had 4 players ahead of him at the position, meaning that he probably would not be part of the squad; with no pledge, he would clear waivers to be back of the practice roster. Wheatley Jr. hasn\u2019t played a regular-campaign NFL match yet.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland needed a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> RB behind <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/nick-chubb\/\">Nick Chubb<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/jerome-ford\/\">Jerome Ford<\/a>, and the newly acquired player from the Patriots will solve this problem as the depth is guaranteed at that position before the beginning of the new season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New England Patriots got OT Tyrone Wheatley Jr. from the Cleveland Browns in a trade for RB Pierre Strong Jr. today. Tyrone, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":456830,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16975,17487,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[17995,18130,17873],"acf":{"announce":"New England made a trade today.","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\/456829"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456833,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456829\/revisions\/456833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456829"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456829"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}