{"id":541606,"date":"2017-08-26T22:48:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T02:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=541606"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:31:29","slug":"super-bowl-standout-kony-ealy-ended-up-on-waivers-18-months-later-what-went-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=541606","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl standout Kony Ealy ended up on waivers 18 months later. What went wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in March, Super Bowl 50 standout Kony Ealy&#8217;s trade from the Panthers to the Patriots barely registered with the Carolina fan base. Timing was key. That same day, the \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article169632522.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article169632522.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\/article169632522.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Super Bowl standout Kony Ealy ended up on waivers 18 months later. What went wrong?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in March, Super Bowl 50 standout Kony Ealy&#8217;s trade from the Panthers to the Patriots barely registered with the Carolina fan base. Timing was key&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541606","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\/541606","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=541606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904550,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541606\/revisions\/1904550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}