{"id":401953,"date":"2016-11-22T21:09:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T02:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=401953"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:31:47","slug":"ezekiel-elliott-exceeding-lofty-expectations-for-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=401953","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel Elliott exceeding lofty expectations for Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FRISCO, Texas | <\/strong>Ezekiel Elliott didn&#8217;t dwell for long on the moment that most made him look like a rookie with the Dallas Cowboys: His benching over two fumbles against Washington in the second game of his career.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth overall pick in the draft faces the Redskins again Thursday, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/nov\/22\/ezekiel-elliott-exceeding-lofty-expectations-for-c\/?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\/nov\/22\/ezekiel-elliott-exceeding-lofty-expectations-for-c\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Ezekiel Elliott exceeding lofty expectations for Cowboys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRISCO, Texas | Ezekiel Elliott didn&#8217;t dwell for long on the moment that most made him look like a rookie with the Dallas Cowboys: His benching&#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-401953","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\/401953","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=401953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908670,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401953\/revisions\/1908670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}