{"id":339539,"date":"2016-07-19T16:01:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=339539"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:05:44","slug":"position-breakdown-matt-jones-is-the-redskins-lead-running-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=339539","title":{"rendered":"Position breakdown: Matt Jones is the Redskins&#8217; lead running back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Jones arrived at organized team activities this spring more confident than the rookie running back who shared carries with Alfred Morris last season. Jones showed flashes of success in 2015, but concerns about ball security clouded the positive things he was able to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>At times, Jones said he &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/jul\/19\/redskins-running-back-matt-jones-chris-thompson\/?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\/jul\/19\/redskins-running-back-matt-jones-chris-thompson\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Position breakdown: Matt Jones is the Redskins&#039; lead running back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Jones arrived at organized team activities this spring more confident than the rookie running back who shared carries with Alfred Morris last season. Jones showed&#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-339539","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\/339539","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=339539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907546,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339539\/revisions\/1907546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}