{"id":465839,"date":"2023-10-15T05:25:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T09:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465839"},"modified":"2023-10-15T05:25:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T09:25:52","slug":"patriots-ink-qb-wr-cunningham-from-practice-squad","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/patriots-ink-qb-wr-cunningham-from-practice-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots ink QB\/WR Cunningham from practice squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Determined to change something in their awful offense since the beginning of the new campaign, the New England Patriots inked dynamic receiver\/quarterback Malik Cunningham to their 53-man squad.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham, who finished his period at Louisville ranked 4<sup>th<\/sup> in school history with 9,664 passing yards and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> with 3,184 rushing yards, had spent the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 5 weeks of the campaign on the franchise\u2019s practice roster.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wow: Not only are the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Patriots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Patriots<\/a> elevating Malik Cunningham from the practice squad to the 53 man roster, but they are signing him to a THREE year deal, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RapSheet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s pretty impressive, from PS right to a 3 year contract. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K6kTBPp3S8\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/K6kTBPp3S8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasrifootball\/status\/1713280833564426566?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Malik is expected to be active as New England (1-4) will face away from home Las Vegas (2-3) during the weekend at Allegiant Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The organization is in the last place in the league in points per match, and the 6-foot-1, 198-pound new signing must help them to change that. He can also compete with <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/mac-jones\/\">Mac Jones<\/a> for the QB position but also be on the field as a receiver as <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/juju-smith-schuster\/\">JuJu Smith-Schuster<\/a> and rookie Demario &#8220;Pop&#8221; Douglas will be sidelined for the match on Sunday due to injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Determined to change something in their awful offense since the beginning of the new campaign, the New England Patriots inked dynamic receiver\/quarterback Malik [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":465840,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17487,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[21760,18130,17873],"acf":{"announce":"Pats signed Malik to their roster from the practice squad.","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\/465839"}],"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=465839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465843,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465839\/revisions\/465843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465839"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465839"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}