{"id":498315,"date":"2017-06-09T18:41:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T22:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=498315"},"modified":"2017-06-09T18:41:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T22:41:39","slug":"former-pirate-lb-dreaming-bigger-with-nfl-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=498315","title":{"rendered":"Former Pirate LB dreaming &#8216;Bigger&#8217; with NFL opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-pirate-lb-dreaming-bigger-with-nfl-opportunity\/16753214\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/ecu\/2017\/06\/09\/16753216\/289580-biggercoach-DMID1-5b1cd1buo-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Zeek Bigger Panthers OTAs\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Zeek Bigger certainly took the road less traveled to get to the Carolina Panthers and the NFL. He was a stud on East Carolina&#8217;s defense, leading the Pirates in tackles for two seasons, but when it came time to go pro, 6-foot-2 Bigger&#8217;s phone went silent. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-pirate-lb-dreaming-bigger-with-nfl-opportunity\/16753214\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-pirate-lb-dreaming-bigger-with-nfl-opportunity\/16753214\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Former Pirate LB dreaming 'Bigger' with NFL opportunity\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zeek Bigger certainly took the road less traveled to get to the Carolina Panthers and the NFL. He was a stud on East Carolina&#8217;s defense,&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498315","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=498315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}