{"id":5439,"date":"2013-04-25T22:12:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T02:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5439"},"modified":"2013-04-25T22:12:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T02:12:48","slug":"panthers-select-utah-defensive-tackle-in-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5439","title":{"rendered":"Panthers select Utah defensive tackle in NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5440\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lotulelei.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lotulelei-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Lotulelei\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lotulelei-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lotulelei-36x36.jpeg 36w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lotulelei-115x115.jpeg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lotulelei<\/figcaption><\/figure>Star Lotulelei, a first-team All-America defensive tackle from Utah, was chosen by the Carolina Panthers in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a big-time player but there are questions &#8211; mostly about his ability to rush the passer and his struggles with weight. He had 42 tackles last year, five were sacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s strong, he&#8217;s quick and a tough kid,&#8221; draft guru Mel Kiper said. &#8220;A very good player but the pass rush wasn&#8217;t there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Analyst Jon Gruden added that the pass rush is a concern. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t rush the passe, you don&#8217;t play,&#8221; Gruden said. &#8220;He&#8217;ll help them sto the run and get in passing situations but will he close the deal with the pass rush.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also had heart issues that physicians believe was related to a virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Lotulelei, a first-team All-America defensive tackle from Utah, was chosen by the Carolina Panthers in the first round. He&#8217;s a big-time player but there&#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-5439","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\/5439","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=5439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5442,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions\/5442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}