{"id":21074,"date":"2015-08-03T11:17:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T16:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=21074"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:49:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:49:42","slug":"fhsu-standout-receiver-ed-williams-signs-with-the-green-bay-packers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=21074","title":{"rendered":"FHSU Standout Receiver Ed Williams Signs with the Green Bay Packers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21075\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21075\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?attachment_id=21075\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21075\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21075\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/GreenBay.jpg?resize=278%2C181\" alt=\"The Green Bay Packers are the third-oldest franchise in the NFL, organized and starting play in 1919.\" width=\"278\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Green Bay Packers are the third-oldest franchise in the NFL, organized and starting play in 1919.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>FHSU Sports Information Department<\/p>\n<p>GREEN BAY, Wisc. &#8211; Former standout Tiger receiver Ed Williams signed a free agent contract with the Green Bay Packers on Monday (Aug. 3). Williams, who received tryouts this summer with several NFL teams, finally landed with one of the league&#8217;s most storied franchises.<\/p>\n<p>Williams was an All-MIAA First Team selection for the Tigers in 2014 as a senior, finishing with 53 receptions for 946 yards and seven touchdowns. He averaged 17.8 yards per catch. He also received All-Super Region 3 honors from Don Hansen and Beyond Sports Network. In his three-year career at FHSU he finished with 1,617 receiving yards, averaging 18.8 yards per catch, and 14 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is the second Tiger to be signed by an NFL team this summer. Nathan Lindsey, who played for two years at FHSU as a defensive back, was signed by the Detroit Lions back in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FHSU Sports Information Department GREEN BAY, Wisc. &#8211; Former standout Tiger receiver Ed Williams signed a free agent contract with the Green Bay Packers on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3387,7349],"tags":[6818,5198,6977,1624,1694,106,6976,2544],"class_list":["post-21074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-sports","category-sports","tag-roartigers","tag-all-miaa-first-team","tag-detroit-lions","tag-ed-williams","tag-fhsu-football","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-nathan-lindsey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21077,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21074\/revisions\/21077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}