{"id":35826,"date":"2015-05-12T11:07:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T15:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=35826"},"modified":"2015-05-12T11:07:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T15:07:03","slug":"lehigh-acres-derrick-wells-to-get-degree-nfl-job-in-same-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/05\/lehigh-acres-derrick-wells-to-get-degree-nfl-job-in-same-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres Derrick Wells to get degree, NFL job in same week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35827\" title=\"Derrick Wells-0\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Derrick-Wells-0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"238\" \/>Derrick Wells will receive his business and marketing degree from the\u00a0University of Minnesota\u00a0on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>By then, he&#8217;s hoping to sign a free-agent contract with the\u00a0Tampa Bay Buccaneers.<\/p>\n<p>A former Lehigh Senior star, Wells worked out for the Bucs at safety and took part in defensive and special teams meetings on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I was in the locker room, they told me to take a quick shower and get my stuff and they were going to take me upstairs,&#8221; Wells said. &#8220;The GM (Jason Licht) came in and congratulated us. I&#8217;m supposed to sign this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Best week? &#8220;With my graduation, I think it is,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And Tampa Bay is the team I grew up liking. They were my favorite team. My mom said, &#8216;Isn&#8217;t that the team when they&#8217;d lose, you used to cry?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because of his upcoming graduation, Wells said he couldn&#8217;t practice with the veterans this week. He&#8217;ll return to Bucs&#8217; headquarters on Sunday after taking part in graduation ceremonies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derrick Wells will receive his business and marketing degree from the\u00a0University of Minnesota\u00a0on Thursday. By then, he&#8217;s hoping to sign a free-agent contract with the\u00a0Tampa Bay Buccaneers. A former Lehigh&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}