{"id":236278,"date":"2016-04-29T18:25:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T22:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=236278"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:28:30","slug":"vernon-butler-ready-to-contribute-for-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=236278","title":{"rendered":"Vernon Butler ready to contribute for Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/vernon-butler-ready-to-contribute-for-panthers\/15673140\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/nfl\/panthers\/2016\/04\/29\/15673156\/15673156-1461967771-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Vernon Butler\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Carolina Panthers added to their stacked defensive line Thursday night, adding Louisiana Tech defensive tackle Vernon Butler with the 30th overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/vernon-butler-ready-to-contribute-for-panthers\/15673140\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/vernon-butler-ready-to-contribute-for-panthers\/15673140\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Vernon Butler ready to contribute for Panthers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Panthers added to their stacked defensive line Thursday night, adding Louisiana Tech defensive tackle Vernon Butler with the 30th overall pick in the 2016&#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-236278","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\/236278","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=236278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901832,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236278\/revisions\/1901832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}