{"id":1041548,"date":"2020-08-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1041548"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:28:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:28:25","slug":"panthers-defense-will-rely-on-returning-veterans-stepping-up-on-and-off-field-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1041548","title":{"rendered":"Panthers defense will rely on returning veterans stepping up on and off field in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Panthers selected a record seven defensive players in this year&#8217;s NFL draft, much of the focus, deservedly so, turned to the influx of new players added to the \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article244739792.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article244739792.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article244739792.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Panthers defense will rely on returning veterans stepping up on and off field in 2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Panthers selected a record seven defensive players in this year&#8217;s NFL draft, much of the focus, deservedly so, turned to the influx of new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-panthers","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-88-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041548","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=1041548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895962,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041548\/revisions\/1895962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}