{"id":2630,"date":"2013-10-01T16:31:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsvn.vip.10uplabs.com\/dolphins-clay-thriving-as-a-starter-at-te\/"},"modified":"2013-10-01T16:31:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T16:31:07","slug":"dolphins-clay-thriving-as-a-starter-at-te","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/sports\/dolphins-clay-thriving-as-a-starter-at-te\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins&#8217; Clay thriving as a starter at TE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By STEVEN WINE<br \/>AP Sports Writer                  <\/p>\n<p>DAVIE, Fla. (AP) &#8211; Versatile Charles Clay has needed a couple of seasons to get comfortable playing multiple positions for the Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>Now Clay&#8217;s busier than ever filling the role that had been planned for tight end Dustin Keller, who suffered a season-ending knee injury a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>Clay&#8217;s also an H-back at times and an occasional fullback. And he&#8217;s a big reason Miami is off to a 2-0 start for only the second time since 2002 heading into Sunday&#8217;s game against Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Productivity at tight end is improved over recent seasons. Ryan Tannehill has targeted Clay 13 times, and 10 of those passes have been completed for 163 yards. In Sunday&#8217;s victory at Indianapolis, Clay gained 109 yards &#8211; the second-highest total ever for a Miami tight end &#8211; on five receptions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and <a class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_NFL\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_NFL<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow Steven Wine on Twitter: <a class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Steve_Wine\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/Steve_Wine<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic;\">Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By STEVEN WINEAP Sports Writer DAVIE, Fla. (AP) &#8211; Versatile Charles Clay has needed a couple of seasons to get comfortable playing multiple positions for<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/sports\/dolphins-clay-thriving-as-a-starter-at-te\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188962050,"featured_media":2631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_speedyseo_primary_category":"","_sunbeam_story_id":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1410,1378],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1564],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miami-dolphins","category-sports"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/2857223_g-15.jpg?quality=60&strip=color","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188962050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}