{"id":197364,"date":"2016-03-31T14:24:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=197364"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:06:17","slug":"redskins-sign-veteran-tight-end-washington-native-vernon-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=197364","title":{"rendered":"Redskins sign veteran tight end, Washington native Vernon Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Redskins already have five tight ends on their roster, but with three of them coming off major injuries, the team chose to add more depth by signing veteran Vernon Davis on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, a Washington native, finished last season with &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/mar\/31\/redskins-sign-vernon-davis-tight-end\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/mar\/31\/redskins-sign-vernon-davis-tight-end\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Redskins sign veteran tight end, Washington native Vernon Davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Redskins already have five tight ends on their roster, but with three of them coming off major injuries, the team chose to add more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197364","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=197364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907596,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197364\/revisions\/1907596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}