{"id":410616,"date":"2017-01-06T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=410616"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:19:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:19:39","slug":"uncs-hood-reverses-field-opts-to-enter-2017-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=410616","title":{"rendered":"UNC&#8217;s Hood reverses field, opts to enter 2017 NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/sports\/college_sports\/unc-s-hood-reverses-field-opts-to-enter-nfl-draft\/article_d35a8036-d445-11e6-a256-b353f854a7ed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/fayobserver.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/2\/3c\/23c537d2-d446-11e6-b5ee-5b8ae3aab617\/586fefdf6e7e1.image.jpg?resize=300,219\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Just three weeks after saying he&#8217;d return to North Carolina for the 2017 season, junior running back Elijah Hood announced Friday he&#8217;s foregoing his final season with the Tar Heels to enter the NFL draft. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/sports\/college_sports\/unc-s-hood-reverses-field-opts-to-enter-nfl-draft\/article_d35a8036-d445-11e6-a256-b353f854a7ed.html\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/sports\/college_sports\/unc-s-hood-reverses-field-opts-to-enter-nfl-draft\/article_d35a8036-d445-11e6-a256-b353f854a7ed.html\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"UNC&#039;s Hood reverses field, opts to enter 2017 NFL draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fayetteville Observer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just three weeks after saying he&#8217;d return to North Carolina for the 2017 season, junior running back Elijah Hood announced Friday he&#8217;s foregoing his final season&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410616","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=410616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923736,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410616\/revisions\/1923736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}