{"id":542069,"date":"2017-09-01T11:38:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T15:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=542069"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:55:30","slug":"will-blackmon-released-by-redskins-move-clears-room-for-player-with-upside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=542069","title":{"rendered":"Will Blackmon released by Redskins; move clears room for player with upside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the most noteworthy of their early cuts, the Washington Redskins released veteran safety Will Blackmon Friday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Multiple outlets reported that Blackmon had been cut Friday afternoon, in advance of the league-mandated cut down to 53 players by Saturday at 4 p.m. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Blackmon has &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/sep\/1\/will-blackmons-release-clears-room-player-upside\/?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\/2017\/sep\/1\/will-blackmons-release-clears-room-player-upside\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Will Blackmon released by Redskins; move clears room for player with upside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the most noteworthy of their early cuts, the Washington Redskins released veteran safety Will Blackmon Friday. Multiple outlets reported that Blackmon had been cut Friday&#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-542069","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\/542069","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=542069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907060,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542069\/revisions\/1907060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}