{"id":477699,"date":"2017-05-02T13:47:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T17:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=477699"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:11:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:11:49","slug":"panthers-exercise-kelvin-benjamins-fifth-year-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=477699","title":{"rendered":"Panthers exercise Kelvin Benjamin\u2019s fifth-year option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Panthers have exercised the fifth-year option on wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin, a league source confirmed Tuesday. The news was first reported by ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter. Panthers general manager \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article148072339.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article148072339.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\/article148072339.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Panthers exercise Kelvin Benjamin\u2019s fifth-year option\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Panthers have exercised the fifth-year option on wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin, a league source confirmed Tuesday. The news was first reported by ESPN&#8217;s Adam&#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-477699","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\/477699","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=477699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900158,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477699\/revisions\/1900158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}