{"id":543170,"date":"2017-09-12T15:20:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T19:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=543170"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:06:37","slug":"how-ex-clemson-qb-deshaun-watson-went-from-preseason-success-vs-panthers-to-nfl-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=543170","title":{"rendered":"How ex-Clemson QB Deshaun Watson went from preseason success vs. Panthers to NFL starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That didn&#8217;t take long. When the Houston Texans selected former Clemson quarterback in the first round (No. 12 overall) of April&#8217;s NFL draft, the question wasn&#8217;t if he would be \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article172879661.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article172879661.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\/article172879661.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"How ex-Clemson QB Deshaun Watson went from preseason success vs. Panthers to NFL starter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That didn&#8217;t take long. When the Houston Texans selected former Clemson quarterback in the first round (No. 12 overall) of April&#8217;s NFL draft, the question wasn&#8217;t&#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-543170","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\/543170","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=543170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899597,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543170\/revisions\/1899597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}