{"id":61501,"date":"2019-03-16T20:52:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T00:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=61501"},"modified":"2019-03-16T20:52:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T00:52:02","slug":"report-johnny-manziel-signs-aaf-player-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2019\/03\/16\/report-johnny-manziel-signs-aaf-player-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Johnny Manziel Signs AAF Player Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/ManzJo00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johnny Manziel<\/a> <\/strong>violated his CFL contract with the Montreal Alouettes and was released, Manziel will be joining a new league. According to NFL insider Adam Schefter, Manziel has signed the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/aaf\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alliance of American Football<\/a> Standard Player Agreement. Manziel will go through the waiver system, and can be picked up by the team with the lowest win-loss percentage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Source: Johnny Manziel has signed the Alliance of American Football Standard Player Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1107071152902623233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Johnny Manziel now will go through the AAF waiver system since the San Antonio Commanders released his college allocation rights. Lowest win-loss percentage up first for Johnny Football.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1107071276215164928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1>Johnny Manziel Signs AAF Player Agreement<\/h1>\n<h2>What Manziel Brings<\/h2>\n<p>On a weekend full of AAF games, this news comes as a surprise. After Manziel&#8217;s 2015 season, Manziel was released from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/browns\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cleveland Browns<\/a> after playing 10 of 16 games. Manziel checked into a rehab to get his life back together after struggling with off the field issues. In his short lived NFL career, Manziel finished with two wins, six losses as a starter, almost 1700 yards passing, seven touchdowns and seven interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Manziel stepped away from the limelight for a while. He would later join the Spring 2018 developmental league and eventually signing a two year deal with the Hamilton Tigers of the CFL. Over the summer, Hamilton traded Manziel to Montreal. During the 2018 season, he made eight starts. In those games, Manziel&#8217;s totals were five touchdowns and seven interceptions on a 64 percent completion rate, throwing for almost 1300 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Manziel is a dynamic player, who can provide a spark for the lowly Memphis Express or Salt Lake Stallions. Those two teams would be in the running for Manziel, considering they have the lowest win-loss percentage in the Alliance currently. Manziel can create plays outside of the pocket, something that will be important to be a quarterback for the Express or Stallions. Neither team have a great offensive line.<\/p>\n<h2>Bottom Line<\/h2>\n<p>This may be Manziel&#8217;s last chance. Manziel has not been able to succeed in two of the highest professional football leagues this far. The 26 year old&#8217;s theoretical clock is ticking, one or two more personal issues could see a once highly touted quarterback&#8217;s career completely disappear.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"nuuCmSWvTlZsQvV_wflNYA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1047953988\" 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:'nuuCmSWvTlZsQvV_wflNYA',sig:'lCETqjuA9UJEqOXqJqR0HY3jHKDMrUhon4yKrq_BBAE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1047953988',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>Former Cleveland Browns and Montreal Alouettes quarterback Johnny Manziel has signed the AAF player agreement, per NFL insider Adam Schefter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2954,"featured_media":61504,"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":"Johnny Manziel Signs AAF Player Agreement","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"300","footnotes":""},"categories":[4737,54,2],"tags":[4626,3990,61,1330],"class_list":["post-61501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aaf","category-editorials","category-featured","tag-aaf","tag-alliance-of-american-football","tag-football","tag-johnny-manziel"],"modified_by":"Will Noltie, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61501","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\/2954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}