{"id":621368,"date":"2018-04-28T16:36:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T20:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=621368"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:52:12","slug":"panthers-4th-rounder-ian-thomas-upside-will-surprise-but-his-backstory-will-amaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=621368","title":{"rendered":"Panthers 4th-rounder Ian Thomas&#8217; upside will surprise, but his backstory will amaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who? You know, Ian Thomas. The Baltimore kid. The Indiana tight end, now a Carolina Panthers fourth-round draft pick. Wait, who? Ian Thomas, you know. New tight end No. 2. \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article210054714.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article210054714.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article210054714.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Panthers 4th-rounder Ian Thomas&#039; upside will surprise, but his backstory will amaze\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who? You know, Ian Thomas. The Baltimore kid. The Indiana tight end, now a Carolina Panthers fourth-round draft pick. Wait, who? Ian Thomas, you know. New&#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-621368","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\/621368","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=621368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898135,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621368\/revisions\/1898135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}