{"id":1288964,"date":"2021-04-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1288964"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:19:42","slug":"carolina-panthers-set-themselves-up-perfectly-for-this-nfl-draft-this-is-no-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1288964","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers set themselves up perfectly for this NFL draft. This is no accident."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tangible value of the eighth pick in the NFL draft has been generally agreed upon for decades now, and while every team&#8217;s analysts and quants may concoct their own \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/luke-decock\/article250892609.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/luke-decock\/article250892609.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\/spt-columns-blogs\/luke-decock\/article250892609.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Carolina Panthers set themselves up perfectly for this NFL draft. This is no accident.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tangible value of the eighth pick in the NFL draft has been generally agreed upon for decades now, and while every team&#8217;s analysts and quants&#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-1288964","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\/1288964","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=1288964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895042,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288964\/revisions\/1895042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}