{"id":40916,"date":"2021-10-06T01:22:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T01:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/dolphins-trade-wr-grant-to-bears-for-draft-pick\/"},"modified":"2021-10-06T01:22:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T01:22:24","slug":"dolphins-trade-wr-grant-to-bears-for-draft-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/?p=40916","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins trade WR Grant to Bears for draft pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"47.275405007364\">\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp\" data-behavior=\"date_time\" data-date=\"2021-10-05T15:26:00Z\"><span class=\"time\" data-dateformat=\"time1\" data-showtimezone=\"true\">11:26 AM ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"author-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Marcel Louis-Jacques<span>ESPN <\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>MIAMI &#8212; The Dolphins have traded wide receiver Jakeem Grant to the Chicago Bears, the team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins will receive a 2023 sixth-round pick, the NFL Network first reported and a source confirmed to ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Grant, the Dolphins&#8217; primary returner since they drafted him in the sixth round in 2016, is one of the NFL&#8217;s best special teams players with five return touchdowns in his career; he ranks 11th among active players in non-offensive touchdowns. He was voted a second-team All-Pro last season, one year after signing a four-year, $19.7 million extension in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>For his career, Grant has 978 punt return yards and 2,206 kick return yards.<\/p>\n<p>He has had a slow start to the season, however, muffing a punt during Miami&#8217;s loss to the Colts in Week 4 and fumbling deep in the red zone in the team&#8217;s loss to the Bills in Week 2.<\/p>\n<p>Filling in for Grant as the Dolphins&#8217; primary returner will presumably be rookie <a href=\" Waddle, who handled punt return duties when Grant was injured in Week 2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11:26 AM ET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}