{"id":581724,"date":"2018-02-21T09:43:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=581724"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:53:20","slug":"vita-vea-redskins-pick-nt-in-mel-kiper-jr-s-latest-mock-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=581724","title":{"rendered":"Vita Vea, Redskins pick NT, in Mel Kiper Jr.&#8217;s latest mock draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN&#8217;s Mel Kiper Jr. <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/draft2018\/insider\/story\/_\/id\/22514188\/nfl-mock-draft-2018-20-mel-kiper-first-round-pick-rankings-draft-order-32-picks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released<\/a> his 2018 Mock Draft 2.0 Wednesday morning, in which he projects the Washington Redskins will select University of Washington nose tackle Vita Vea with the 13th overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>Vea was the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year in 2017. In his three-year college &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/feb\/21\/vita-vea-redskins-pick-nt-in-mel-kiper-jrs-latest-\/?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\/2018\/feb\/21\/vita-vea-redskins-pick-nt-in-mel-kiper-jrs-latest-\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Vita Vea, Redskins pick NT, in Mel Kiper Jr.&#039;s latest mock draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN&#8217;s Mel Kiper Jr. released his 2018 Mock Draft 2.0 Wednesday morning, in which he projects the Washington Redskins will select University of Washington nose tackle&#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-581724","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\/581724","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=581724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906872,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581724\/revisions\/1906872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}