{"id":1139,"date":"2022-08-30T22:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T22:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/devon-allen-philadelphia-eagles-release-olympic-hurdler-as-they-cut-squad-for-nfl-season\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T22:37:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T22:37:16","slug":"devon-allen-philadelphia-eagles-release-olympic-hurdler-as-they-cut-squad-for-nfl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/devon-allen-philadelphia-eagles-release-olympic-hurdler-as-they-cut-squad-for-nfl-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Devon Allen: Philadelphia Eagles release Olympic hurdler as they cut squad for NFL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".nzi6zl09no.0.0.0.1\">\n<figure class=\"gs-u-mt0 gs-u-mb-alt+ story-body__media story-body__media--figure qa-story-body-media story-body__media--lead\" data-reactid=\".nzi6zl09no.0.0.0.1.$image-0\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block story-body__media\" data-reactid=\".nzi6zl09no.0.0.0.1.$image-0.0\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block gs-o-responsive-image\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" data-reactid=\".nzi6zl09no.0.0.0.1.$image-0.0.0\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"gel-brevier gs-u-ph+ gs-u-pv-alt story-body__media__caption story-body__media__caption--image\" data-reactid=\".nzi6zl09no.0.0.0.1.$image-0.1\">Devon Allen caught a 55-yard touchdown pass in a pre-season game against the Cleveland Browns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p role=\"introduction\" class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" data-reactid=\".nzi6zl09no.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\"><span data-reactid=\".nzi6zl09no.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1.0\">The Philadelphia Eagles have released Olympic hurdler Devon Allen after just over a month with the franchise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".nzi6zl09no.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3\"><span data-reactid=\".nzi6zl09no.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0\">NFL teams have had to reduce their squads to 53 players for the start to the season and he did not make the cut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".nzi6zl09no.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".nzi6zl09no.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">The club reportedly plan to re-sign him to their practice squad if he is not picked up by another team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".nzi6zl09no.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".nzi6zl09no.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">Allen was a wide receiver with the University of Oregon but quit the sport six years ago to focus on athletics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".nzi6zl09no.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".nzi6zl09no.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">He has raced in two Olympic finals, finishing fifth at Rio 2016 and fourth in Tokyo last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".nzi6zl09no.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\"><span data-reactid=\".nzi6zl09no.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">Allen previous said of his bid to play in the NFL: &#8220;It&#8217;s not a one-and-done thing. This is a commitment from me. As long as I feel comfortable playing and feel like I can play good football, I&#8217;ll play.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/american-football\/62729085?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devon Allen caught a 55-yard touchdown pass in a pre-season game against the Cleveland Browns The Philadelphia Eagles have released Olympic hurdler Devon Allen after just over a month with the franchise. NFL teams have had to reduce their squads to 53 players for the start to the season and he did not make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}