{"id":1027936,"date":"2020-07-22T11:55:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T15:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1027936"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:37:59","slug":"rocky-mount-5-star-de-keeshawn-silver-will-get-a-chance-to-play-basketball-at-unc-as-well-as-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1027936","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Mount 5-star DE Keeshawn Silver will get a chance to play basketball at UNC as well as football"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/rocky-mount-5-star-de-keeshawn-silver-will-get-a-chance-to-play-basketball-at-unc-as-well-as-football\/19199460\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.highschoolot.com\/asset\/content\/mens_basketball\/2017\/12\/30\/17222327\/RockyMount-NashCentral-BBB-122917-20-DMID1-5nlb95ov7-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Basketball: Rocky Mount vs Nash Central (Dec 29, 2017)\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Keeshawn Silver, a 5-star defensive end prospect according to ESPN, is getting the chance to do something very rare today at the college level. The highly-rated football prospect committed to play at the University of North Carolina under Mack Brown earlier this year. This week, Silver announced that he has been given the opportunity to walk on to the basketball team by legendary coach Roy Williams. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/rocky-mount-5-star-de-keeshawn-silver-will-get-a-chance-to-play-basketball-at-unc-as-well-as-football\/19199460\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/rocky-mount-5-star-de-keeshawn-silver-will-get-a-chance-to-play-basketball-at-unc-as-well-as-football\/19199460\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Rocky Mount 5-star DE Keeshawn Silver will get a chance to play basketball at UNC as well as football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High School OT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeshawn Silver, a 5-star defensive end prospect according to ESPN, is getting the chance to do something very rare today at the college level. The highly-rated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1027936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924679,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027936\/revisions\/1924679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}