{"id":913771,"date":"2026-10-02T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913771\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T18:52:09","slug":"amik-robertson-nearly-gave-up-on-the-nfl-the-commanders-are-glad-he-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913771\/","title":{"rendered":"Amik Robertson nearly gave up on the NFL. The Commanders are glad he didn\u2019t."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PDWHDT5RABGKPFSXWFXWNDYNR4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">WATFORD, England \u2014 Amik Robertson was lined up across from arguably the best wide receiver in football. Jaxon Smith-Njigba ran a slant route and quarterback Sam Darnold immediately looked to throw his way. Before it even left Darnold\u2019s hand, Robertson was breaking on the ball. His anticipation allowed him to arrive just as the pass did and knock it out of Smith-Njigba\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATFORD, England \u2014 Amik Robertson was lined up across from arguably the best wide receiver in football. Jaxon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-913771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}