{"id":45444,"date":"2025-07-29T16:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45444\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T16:15:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:15:04","slug":"syracuse-footballs-most-recent-first-round-pick-has-retired-from-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45444\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse football\u2019s most recent first-round pick has retired from the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TX4AVTVGWFDZ3IM5ZZEUPPUIVY\">Syracuse, N.Y. \u2014 The most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/orangefootball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/orangefootball\/\">Syracuse football<\/a> player selected in the first round of the National Football League draft has retired from pro football. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AT7CZSQBIJEUZHMF2RGP7YY5DA\">Justin Pugh, the 19th overall pick by the New York Giants in the 2013 draft, announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.giants.com\/news\/justin-pugh-announces-retirement-from-nfl-arizona-cardinals-syracuse-football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.giants.com\/news\/justin-pugh-announces-retirement-from-nfl-arizona-cardinals-syracuse-football\">he is stepping away from the game<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syracuse, N.Y. \u2014 The most recent Syracuse football player selected in the first round of the National Football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[35958,349,35959,99],"class_list":["post-45444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-7v5a1059","tag-nfl","tag-nflraw23","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}