{"id":6171,"date":"2013-09-25T21:35:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T01:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6171"},"modified":"2013-09-25T21:35:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T01:35:24","slug":"nc-native-nixon-signed-by-colts-off-redskins-practice-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6171","title":{"rendered":"NC native Nixon signed by Colts off Redskins practice squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6172\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/xaviernixon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/xaviernixon.jpg\" alt=\"Xavier Nixon.\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6172\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xavier Nixon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Offensive tackle Xavier Nixon, who is from Fayetteville, NC and played at Jack Britt High School, has been signed off the Redskins&#8217; practice squad by the Indianapolis Colts, who put him on their active roster.<\/p>\n<p>The Skins signed Nixon, who went to the University of Florida, as an undrafted rookie earlier this year. 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. He started five games at left tackle as a freshman while Tim Tebow was the starting QB.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of losing Nixon, the Redskins announced today that they have signed free agent tackle Troy Kropog (Crow-POG) to the team\u2019s practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>Kropog (6-6, 295) was originally drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the fourth round of the 2009 NFL Draft (135th overall).<\/p>\n<p>He has appeared in seven NFL games, all with the Titans from 2009-12.<\/p>\n<p>He was acquired on waivers by the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sept. 12, 2012, before being released three days later.<\/p>\n<p>He signed to the Minnesota Vikings\u2019 practice squad on Sept. 18 that season and was added to their active roster on Dec. 7.<\/p>\n<p>He was released by the Vikings on Sept. 1, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Kropog, 27, played collegiately at Tulane, where he started 36 games for the Green Wave and was named team captain as a senior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offensive tackle Xavier Nixon, who is from Fayetteville, NC and played at Jack Britt High School, has been signed off the Redskins&#8217; practice squad by&#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-6171","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\/6171","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=6171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6173,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions\/6173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}