{"id":460415,"date":"2023-09-24T14:17:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T10:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=460415"},"modified":"2023-09-24T14:17:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T10:17:30","slug":"saints-ink-carl-granderson-to-52-million-dollar-extension","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/saints-ink-carl-granderson-to-52-million-dollar-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints ink Carl Granderson to 52 million dollar extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints are inking DE <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/carl-granderson\/\">Carl Granderson<\/a> to a 4-year, 52 million dollar deal extension that features more than 35 million dollars in guarantees.<\/p>\n<p>Granderson&#8217;s almost 36 million guarantee is the most by an unselected defensive lineman since these stats were collected in the past 20 years. The guarantee is the 4<sup>th<\/sup> most by any unpicked player, with ex-Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo at the top with 55 million dollars.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud835\uddd5\ud835\udde5\ud835\uddd8\ud835\uddd4\ud835\uddde\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddda: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Saints?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Saints<\/a> are signing DE Carl Granderson to a 4-year contract extension, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeGarafolo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MikeGarafolo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former UDFA gets paid. Love to see it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VKj5q2kGLK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VKj5q2kGLK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasrifootball\/status\/1705649622767616077?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Carl\u2019s contract is a major improvement from his current deal, a 2-year contract worth a little more than 5 million dollars with just 240,000 dollars guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>He was a rotational DL from 2019 to 2022 before Granderson earned the starting position over <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/payton-turner\/\">Payton Turner<\/a> in practice camp this campaign. He has begun from the first minute on the field in 2 matches in 2023, with 2.5 sacks, 5 total tackles, 7 pressures, and 1 forced fumble as his organization remains with a perfect record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints are inking DE Carl Granderson to a 4-year, 52 million dollar deal extension that features more than 35 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":460416,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16920,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[21504,18427,17873],"acf":{"announce":"The NFL franchise from New Orleans signed an extension with the defensive end.","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\/460415"}],"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=460415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/460415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460419,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/460415\/revisions\/460419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460415"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=460415"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=460415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}