{"id":354680,"date":"2016-08-01T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T21:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=354680"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:25:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:25:59","slug":"panthers-rookie-vernon-butler-welcomes-on-field-pointers-polishing-pass-rushing-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=354680","title":{"rendered":"Panthers rookie Vernon Butler welcomes on-field pointers, polishing pass-rushing skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panthers defensive tackle Vernon Butler, the team&#8217;s first-round pick, is struggling to finish plays in his first NFL training camp. But with help from older players and his position coach, the former Louisiana Tech player is confident he&#8217;ll figure things out.<\/p>\n<p> \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article93130302.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article93130302.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article93130302.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Panthers rookie Vernon Butler welcomes on-field pointers, polishing pass-rushing skills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panthers defensive tackle Vernon Butler, the team&#8217;s first-round pick, is struggling to finish plays in his first NFL training camp. But with help from older players&#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-354680","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\/354680","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=354680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901550,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354680\/revisions\/1901550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}