{"id":193682,"date":"2016-03-28T12:36:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T16:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=193682"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:29:06","slug":"carolina-panthers-sign-former-steeler-brandon-boykin-to-play-nickel-cornerback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=193682","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers sign former Steeler Brandon Boykin to play nickel cornerback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Panthers announce they have signed cornerback Brandon Boykin to a 1-year deal<\/p>\n<p>Boykin will play nickel, where Panthers had a need with plan to move Ben\u00e9 Benwikere outside<\/p>\n<p>At 5-foot-9 and 183 pounds, Boykin has the ideal size for a slot cornerback, plus veteran savvy<\/p>\n<p> \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article68619667.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article68619667.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article68619667.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Carolina Panthers sign former Steeler Brandon Boykin to play nickel cornerback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Panthers announce they have signed cornerback Brandon Boykin to a 1-year deal Boykin will play nickel, where Panthers had a need with plan 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-193682","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\/193682","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=193682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901906,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193682\/revisions\/1901906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}