{"id":216860,"date":"2025-03-10T12:42:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=216860"},"modified":"2025-03-10T12:42:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:42:38","slug":"robert-spillane-linebacker-signs-contract-new-england-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/03\/10\/robert-spillane-linebacker-signs-contract-new-england-patriots\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: 150-Tackle Linebacker Signs Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-year veteran linebacker Robert Spillane signed a new contract with the New England Patriots. Spillane, a former undrafted free agent, spent the 2024 season with the Las Vegas Raiders but has also played for the Tennessee Titans and Pittsburgh Steelers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:hlvr2omhnmvdmfnvmcuhyevz\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3ljzyllgayc2k\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreibwafnthe472gh3qnxrja4ykx7fcfhalszpidwjcjvqqubabbegmi\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Sources: The Patriots are signing standout LB Robert Spillane, the former Raider.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Rapoport (<a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:hlvr2omhnmvdmfnvmcuhyevz?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@rapsheet1.bsky.social<\/a>) <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:hlvr2omhnmvdmfnvmcuhyevz\/post\/3ljzyllgayc2k?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Robert Spillane, New England Patriots, Agree to Contract<\/h2>\n<p>While the Las Vegas Raiders had a season to forget in 2024, Robert Spillane brought his \u2018A\u2019 game as one of the more consistent players on defense. Starting in all 17 games, the linebacker finished the season with two interceptions, seven passes defended, two sacks, 158 tackles, 10 tackles-for-loss, and three quarterback hits. Unfortunately, his strong play wasn\u2019t enough to get this team to the playoffs or save head coach <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/raiders-fire-head-coach-antonio-pierce-after-just-one-full-season\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antonio Pierce\u2019s job<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Spillane originally entered the league as an undrafted free agent following the 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-draft\/\" target=\"_self\">NFL Draft<\/a>. Signing with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/titans\/\" target=\"_self\">Tennessee Titans<\/a>, the Western Michigan product couldn\u2019t make the Week 1 roster and spent most of the season on the practice squad. While he made his way into two games, he never recorded an official statistic with the team.<\/p>\n<p>One man\u2019s trash is another man\u2019s treasure, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/steelers\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> found a diamond in the rough when they signed Spillane to a new contact in 2019. While he primarily played special teams in 2019, he became a featured part of the defense in 2020 and beyond. While he never became a full-time player in Pittsburgh\u2019s loaded defense, he became a key rotational piece of a team that never posted a losing season.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Spillane signed a new contract with the Las Vegas Raiders in 2023 and finally had the chance to start. The veteran made the most of this opportunity, starting all 17 games while recording three interceptions, four passes defended, one forced fumble, 3.5 sacks, 148 tackles, seven tackles-for-loss, and four quarterback hits. Thanks in part to his efforts, the Raiders showed life under interim head coach Antonio Pierce after he replaced Josh McDaniels.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Sam Navarro &#8211; Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran linebacker Robert Spillane signed a new contract after proving himself to be the real deal with the Las Vegas Raiders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":216923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17,36],"tags":[7399,246,7087],"class_list":["post-216860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patriots","category-raiders","category-nfl-news","tag-las-vegas-raiders-news","tag-nfl-news","tag-robert-spillane"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216860"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221736,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216860\/revisions\/221736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}