{"id":5506,"date":"2013-05-09T11:46:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T15:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5506"},"modified":"2013-05-09T11:46:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T15:46:51","slug":"thirteen-players-from-duke-state-unc-have-signed-with-nfl-teams-as-free-agents-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5506","title":{"rendered":"Thirteen players from Duke, State, UNC have signed with NFL teams as free agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/nfllogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/nfllogo.jpg\" alt=\"nfllogo\" width=\"203\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5504\" \/><\/a>A total of 13 players from Duke, NC State and UNC have signed free agent contracts or received invitations to attend free agent camps from teams in the National Football League. There are 51 players from Atlantic Coast Conference schools that have done so.<\/p>\n<p>Wolfpack guard Zack Allen was signed by the Carolina Panthers while UNC&#8217;s Casey Barth was picked up by Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Combined with the 31 ACC players drafted by the NFL, a total of 82 players from ACC schools will head to NFL training camps this year.<\/p>\n<p>When draftees (3) and free agents (10) from Pittsburgh and Syracuse are included, teams which will join the ACC this July 1, the number of players headed to the NFL grows to a total of 95 players.<\/p>\n<p>ACC NFL Free Agent Signees (as of May 9)<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nDuke (3)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jackson Anderson      LS             Houston Texans<br \/>\nTony Foster           DB             Kansas City Chiefs<br \/>\nConner Vernon         WR             Oakland Raiders<\/p>\n<p><strong>North Carolina (4)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Casey Barth           PK             Atlanta Falcons<br \/>\nJheranie Boyd         WR             Tampa Bay Buccaneers<br \/>\nErik Highsmith        WR             Minnesota Vikings<br \/>\nKevin Reddick         LB             New Orleans Saints<\/p>\n<p><strong>NC State (6)<\/strong><br \/>\nZach Allen            G              Carolina Panthers<br \/>\nBrandan Bishop        S              Minnesota Vikings<br \/>\nR.J. Mattes           OL             New England Patriots<br \/>\nTobais Palmer         WR             Jacksonville Jaguars<br \/>\nCameron Wentz         C              Minnesota Vikings<br \/>\nC.J. Wilson           CB             Chicago Bears<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&#038;pid=gmail&#038;attid=0.1&#038;thid=13e89d6423884164&#038;mt=application\/msword&#038;url=https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/?ui%3D2%26ik%3D2c77a99eff%26view%3Datt%26th%3D13e89d6423884164%26attid%3D0.1%26disp%3Dsafe%26zw&#038;sig=AHIEtbSgKWXDw1fOHGvPU23S8MqP-AIK4A\" target=\"_blank\">See the full list of ACC players signed.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 13 players from Duke, NC State and UNC have signed free agent contracts or received invitations to attend free agent camps from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79,81,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506","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=5506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5508,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions\/5508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}