{"id":39577,"date":"2018-04-04T20:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T00:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=39577"},"modified":"2021-05-30T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T18:24:50","slug":"report-travis-swanson-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2018\/04\/04\/report-travis-swanson-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Swanson Signs With the New York Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/nfl-teams\/jets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Jets<\/a> announced the signing of center\u00a0Travis Swanson today. Financial terms of the deal were not released.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have signed C Travis Swanson.<\/p>\n<p>MORE \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rzho9o47D1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/rzho9o47D1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n9p1cYTriy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/n9p1cYTriy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyjets\/status\/981620942211252224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>New York Jets Sign\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/S\/SwanTr00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Travis Swanson<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Swanson initially entered the league as a third-round pick of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/lions\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detroit Lions<\/a> in the 2014 NFL Draft. Swanson appeared in all 16 games as a rookie, but only managed to break the starting lineup five times. However, he\u2019s served as the Lions starting center every season since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>When healthy, the Arkansas product had been one of the better centers in football. He&#8217;s a good enough run blocker and has done a good job of keeping quarterback\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/S\/StafMa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matthew Stafford<\/a><\/strong> standing upright.\u00a0However, keeping him healthy has been something of an issue. Since becoming a starter, Swanson has missed at least two games per season, while ending 2016 and 2017 on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>His previous two seasons ended prematurely due to concussions. While it\u2019s never good to finish the season on IR, concussion issues are in a world of their own. Now more than ever, the world knows just how dangerous brain injuries like concussions can be. With concussions ending Swanson\u2019s two previous seasons, there\u2019s no guarantee how long Swanson will play before suffering another.<\/p>\n<p>For what it\u2019s worth, Swanson has interestingly disputed his second concussion. Despite undergoing concussion protocol and being diagnosed, Swanson claims he never suffered a concussion in 2017. Instead, Swanson claims that he had a negative reaction to the medication, which led to his concussion-like symptoms lingering.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Swanson was telling the truth or simply trying to build up his market is anyone\u2019s guess. He reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/lions\/2018\/03\/05\/dave-birkett-inside-lions-nfl-combine\/394912002\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had medical documentation<\/a> to support his claim, but it\u2019s a strange situation all around. Whatever the truth may be, there\u2019s no disputing his 2016 season ended due to a head injury. Moving forward, hopefully, Swanson can avoid any additional traumatic head injuries.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"htsB0xRcSZxUk3QZRCMGAA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/494480660\" 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:'htsB0xRcSZxUk3QZRCMGAA',sig:'6aOY_8RYGNBLm2viiHp6gZUVKOJQYQPoEKZpH70SPXg=',w:'594px',h:'475px',items:'494480660',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>Center Travis Swanson is officially off the free agent market. The third-round pick in the 2014 NFL Draft has ended each of the last two seasons on the injured reserve with concussions. However, Swanson claims he never suffered a concussion in 2017, and the Detroit Lions misdiagnosed him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":39627,"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":[24,6,36],"tags":[43,61,40,1608,3668],"class_list":["post-39577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lions","category-jets","category-nfl-news","tag-detroit-lions","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-free-agency","tag-travis-swanson"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39577","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=39577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}