{"id":458751,"date":"2023-09-10T15:50:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T11:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458751"},"modified":"2023-09-10T15:50:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T11:50:32","slug":"saints-ink-cesar-ruiz-to-4-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/saints-ink-cesar-ruiz-to-4-year-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints ink Cesar Ruiz to 4-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints have announced that they have signed starting right guard Cesar Ruiz to 4-year extension.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DONE DEAL: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Saints?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Saints<\/a> sign Cesar Ruiz (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_OverCees?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@_OverCees<\/a>) to a four-year contract extension \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bTdS0fKt9e\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/bTdS0fKt9e<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nOkotC0wQo\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nOkotC0wQo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New Orleans Saints (@Saints) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Saints\/status\/1700560969250795618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old was entering the final year of his rookie contract after the team refused to pick up the fifth-year option.<\/p>\n<p>The deal ties the player with the club until 2027 and is believed to be worth $44m.<\/p>\n<p>Ruiz was drafted 24th overall back in 2020 and has featured in 46 regular-season games with 40 starts. Most have been at right guard but he has also shown versatility, playing at center.<\/p>\n<p>The Saints go against Tennessee in the opening game of the regular 2023 season and Ruiz will be looking to make immediate impact on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints have announced that they have signed starting right guard Cesar Ruiz to 4-year extension. DONE DEAL: #Saints sign Cesar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":458752,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16920],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[21325,18427],"acf":{"announce":"The starting right guard will be staying long-term with the New Orleans 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\/458751"}],"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=458751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458753,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458751\/revisions\/458753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458751"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458751"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}