{"id":487668,"date":"2024-11-30T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=487668"},"modified":"2024-11-30T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T17:00:12","slug":"james-conner-inks-a-2-year-extension-with-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/james-conner-inks-a-2-year-extension-with-cardinals\/","title":{"rendered":"James Conner inks a 2-year extension with Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Conner is here to stay as he inked a 2-year extension with the Arizona Cardinals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">More time together: Cardinals are signing RB James Conner to a two-year contract extension, per source. Conner was scheduled to be a free agent after this season, but no longer. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LIIEEtE5Mu\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LIIEEtE5Mu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1862888139905200211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Moments before he and HIS TEAMMATES boarded a plane headed to Minnesota, where temperatures will hit the teens today, for tomorrow\u2019s match vs. the Vikings, the running back inked a 2-year extension that will keep him in part of the organization through the 2026 campaign, the franchise revealed.<\/p>\n<p>James, whose base salary was $4.235 million in the current campaign, was set to be a free agent after this campaign. His $9.5 average annual salary will make him the 7<sup>th<\/sup>-highest paid RB.<\/p>\n<p>Already at 705 rushing yards, James, who turns 30 in May, is on pace for his 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-consecutive 1,000-yard campaign \u2013 which also happens to be the only 2 of his 8 years as part of the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Conner recorded 4 hundred-yard matches in the current campaign and has 5 rushing TDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Conner is here to stay as he inked a 2-year extension with the Arizona Cardinals. More time together: Cardinals are signing RB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":487669,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17485,19700,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[19031,19701,17873],"acf":{"announce":"The running back signed a 2-year extension with Arizona.","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\/487668"}],"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=487668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/487668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487670,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/487668\/revisions\/487670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487668"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=487668"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=487668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}