{"id":5497,"date":"2013-05-07T21:34:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T01:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2013-05-07T21:36:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T01:36:34","slug":"two-with-north-carolina-ties-sign-with-redskins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5497","title":{"rendered":"Two with North Carolina ties sign with Redskins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5498\" style=\"width: 117px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/jeremykimbrough.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/jeremykimbrough.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy Kimbrough\" width=\"117\" height=\"171\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Kimbrough<\/figcaption><\/figure>Among the 12 college free agents the Washington Redskins signed recently are two players with North Carolina ties.<\/p>\n<p>The Redskins signed Appalachian State inside linebacker Jeremy Kimbrough, 5-9, 235-pounds, who led the conference with 143 tackles last season. In fact, he was named Southern Conference Co-Defensive Player of the Year last season. He is known as a run stopper but he also worked out as a fullback during the NFL combine.<\/p>\n<p>The Skins also signed Florida offensive tackle Xavier Nixon, who is from Fayetteville and played a Jack Britt High School. The 6-6, 320-pounder made the Senior Bowl but he was not a consistent starter for the Gators although he cracked the starting lineup at times throughout his four years. In fact, he started five games at left tackle as a freshman while Tim Tebow was the starting QB.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5499\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/xaviernixon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/xaviernixon.jpg\" alt=\"Xavier Nixon\" width=\"250\" height=\"184\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5499\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xavier Nixon<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the 12 college free agents the Washington Redskins signed recently are two players with North Carolina ties. The Redskins signed Appalachian State inside linebacker&#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-5497","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\/5497","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=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5502,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions\/5502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}