{"id":1927830,"date":"2026-08-13T17:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927830"},"modified":"2026-08-13T19:14:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:14:01","slug":"lane-kiffin-stands-by-d-j-pickett-wearing-the-no-5-of-former-lsu-qb-jayden-daniels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927830","title":{"rendered":"Lane Kiffin stands by D.J. Pickett wearing the No. 5 of former LSU QB Jayden Daniels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LSU coach Lane Kiffin said Thursday that he is standing by his initial stance on allowing cornerback D.J. Pickett to wear the No. 5 jersey previously worn by 2023 Heisman Trophy winner Jayden Daniels \u2014 even in the face of objections and legal threats from the former Tigers quarterback. LSU&#8217;s offi&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/55b27-kiffin-maintaining-initial-stance-on-d-j-pickett-wearing-the-no-5-of-former-lsu-qb-jayden-daniels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LSU coach Lane Kiffin said Thursday that he is standing by his initial stance on allowing cornerback D.J. Pickett to wear the No. 5 jersey previously&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1927831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927830","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1927830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927832,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927830\/revisions\/1927832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1927830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1927830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1927830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}