{"id":314,"date":"2010-10-11T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=314"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T18:05:10","slug":"banks-a-hit-with-redskins-devin-thomas-released-picked-up-by-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"Banks a hit with Redskins; Devin Thomas released, picked up by Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garner native Brandon Banks seems to have a solid hold on punt return duties for the Washington Redskins and is getting more chances on kickoff return duties after Devin Thomas was released a few days ago. <\/p>\n<p>Today, the Carolina Panthers picked up Thomas, a receiver out of Michigan State who was the 34th overall selection by the Redskins in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Banks broke one big return during Sunday&#8217;s victory over the Packers but it was called back by a penalty. He returned three punts for 47 yards and two kickoffs for 33 yards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s got great quickness and he plays with a lot of confidence,&#8221; Redskins coach Mike Shanahan said today. &#8220;When he went in for the last punt return, he said, &#8216;Coach, this game&#8217;s over.&#8217; &#8230; He&#8217;s got a lot of belief in himself. He can make something happen so hopefully he continues to do what he&#8217;s been doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garner native Brandon Banks seems to have a solid hold on punt return duties for the Washington Redskins and is getting more chances on kickoff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}