{"id":354324,"date":"2016-08-01T08:25:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T12:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=354324"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:05:35","slug":"houston-bates-willing-to-take-on-increased-role-in-redskins-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=354324","title":{"rendered":"Houston Bates willing to take on increased role in Redskins defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND \u2014 Before every team meeting, Houston Bates takes his place in the second row, second seat from the left. It&#8217;s where he began sitting in 2015 after the Washington Redskins took a chance and signed the undrafted outside linebacker from Louisiana Tech.<\/p>\n<p>He remained there during the preseason when &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/aug\/1\/redskins-training-camp-houston-bates\/?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\/aug\/1\/redskins-training-camp-houston-bates\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Houston Bates willing to take on increased role in Redskins defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND \u2014 Before every team meeting, Houston Bates takes his place in the second row, second seat from the left. It&#8217;s where he began sitting in&#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-354324","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\/354324","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=354324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907530,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354324\/revisions\/1907530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}