{"id":1940352,"date":"2026-10-26T14:35:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T18:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1940352"},"modified":"2026-10-26T14:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T18:42:21","slug":"why-sadler-didnt-play-against-syracuse-as-heltons-role-surged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1940352","title":{"rendered":"Why Sadler didn\u2019t play against Syracuse as Helton\u2019s role surged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 C.J. Sadler went from starting at wide receiver for North Carolina to not playing an offensive snap Saturday against Syracuse, a change Coach Bill Belichick attributed to Nyqir \u201cBoomer\u201d Helton\u2019s improved practice performance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/10\/26\/why-sadler-didnt-play-against-syracuse-as-heltons-role-surged\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 C.J. Sadler went from starting at wide receiver for North Carolina to not playing an offensive snap Saturday against Syracuse, a change Coach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1940352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940352","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1940352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1940353,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940352\/revisions\/1940353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1940352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1940352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1940352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}