{"id":38389,"date":"2018-03-16T21:32:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T01:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=38389"},"modified":"2018-03-16T21:32:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T01:32:28","slug":"legarrette-blount-signs-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2018\/03\/16\/legarrette-blount-signs-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions Signing Running Back LeGarrette Blount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BlouLe00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LeGarrette Blount<\/a><\/strong> is embarking on a new challenge.<\/p>\n<p>After winning his second straight Super Bowl, Blount is joining the Detroit Lions on a one-year, $4.5 million deal, per NFL Network&#8217;s <strong>Ian Rapoport<\/strong>. The 31-year-old was part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/eagles\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> team that <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/02\/04\/philadelphia-eagles-upset-new-england-patriots-first-super-bowl-victory-franchise-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">won Super Bowl LII<\/a> over the same <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/patriots\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New England Patriots<\/a> team he played for one year earlier which also took home the Lombardi Trophy at season&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lions?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Lions<\/a> are signing FA RB LeGarrette Blount to a 1-year deal worth $4.5M, source said. He\u2019s back with Matt Patricia, as the New England ties are strong.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/974818663021928448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>LeGarrette Blount to Sign One-Year, $4.5 Million Contract With Detroit Lions\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Blount&#8217;s impact with the Eagles was much less pronounced than it was with the Pats. After signing a one-year, $1.25 million deal in the off-season, he managed 766 yards and two touchdowns during the regular season. But he did score a rushing touchdown in each of Philly&#8217;s playoff wins. It included a 21-yard scamper in the second quarter of the Super Bowl that gave his team a 15-3 lead.<\/p>\n<p>A year earlier, Blount was a revelation for New England. His 1,161 yards and 18 touchdowns on the ground were both career highs with the latter total leading all NFL running backs. It included a three-touchdown\u00a0effort against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/seahawks\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> in Week 10, the third time in his career he achieved such a feat.<\/p>\n<p>Blount joined the Pats 12 games into the 2014 season after getting released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/steelers\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>. His first game with the club saw him rush for 78 yards, finding the end zone twice in a 34-9 win over the Detroit Lions. In the AFC Championship, Blount exploded for 148 yards and three touchdowns in a 45-7 blowout win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/colts\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a>. Two weeks later, he won the first of his now three Super Bowl rings.<\/p>\n<p>It was his second stint in Foxborough, having joined the team in 2013 in a trade with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/buccaneers\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>. He spent his first three seasons in the league with the Bucs, but initially joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/titans\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tennessee Titans<\/a> after going undrafted in 2010. Blount ended up in Tampa one day after the Titans cut him. His rookie season can certainly be construed as a success as he became just the second undrafted player in NFL history to rush for over 1,000 yards as a rookie.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"5G_3RaQdR6tlOASjLfLlPg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/914312104\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'5G_3RaQdR6tlOASjLfLlPg',sig:'zdK4BttR-Mwk4aYWD3bjU5V2oNTNJho9Yb4he-ROcbs=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'914312104',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeGarrette Blount is embarking on a new challenge. The 31-year-old was part of a Philadelphia Eagles team that won Super Bowl LII over the same New England Patriots team he played for one year earlier which also took home the Lombardi Trophy at season&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":38395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[36,24,21],"tags":[43,61,674,38,40,46],"class_list":["post-38389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-lions","category-eagles","tag-detroit-lions","tag-football","tag-legarrette-blount","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38389","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}