{"id":1929988,"date":"2026-08-28T03:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T07:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929988"},"modified":"2026-08-28T04:54:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T08:54:04","slug":"panthers-lb-thomas-davis-suffered-opioid-addiction-that-opened-the-door-to-sprawling-drug-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929988","title":{"rendered":"Panthers LB Thomas Davis suffered opioid addiction that opened the door to sprawling drug case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An opioid addiction sullied the once-stellar reputation of one of the NFL&#8217;s good guys, Thomas Davis. The linebacker for the Carolina Panthers, once named a Walter Payton Man of the Year, said he became addicted to the painkillers toward the end of his 16-year career in the league. It was his addi&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/9dbc6-panthers-lb-thomas-davis-suffered-opioid-addiction-that-opened-the-door-to-sprawling-drug-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An opioid addiction sullied the once-stellar reputation of one of the NFL&#8217;s good guys, Thomas Davis. The linebacker for the Carolina Panthers, once named a Walter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1929989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929988","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\/1929988","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=1929988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929990,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929988\/revisions\/1929990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}