{"id":1267112,"date":"2021-04-07T12:53:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T16:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1267112"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:20:07","slug":"the-case-for-and-against-the-panthers-picking-penei-sewell-at-no-8-in-the-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1267112","title":{"rendered":"The case for and against the Panthers picking Penei Sewell at No. 8 in the NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Panthers traded for former Jets quarterback Sam Darnold on Monday, their approach to the draft shifted. Before that, the Panthers&#8217; top priority was to draft a quarterback in \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article250492099.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article250492099.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\/article250492099.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"The case for and against the Panthers picking Penei Sewell at No. 8 in the NFL draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Panthers traded for former Jets quarterback Sam Darnold on Monday, their approach to the draft shifted. Before that, the Panthers&#8217; top priority was to&#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-1267112","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\/1267112","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=1267112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895092,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267112\/revisions\/1895092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}