{"id":7084,"date":"2014-05-08T23:33:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T03:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7084"},"modified":"2014-05-08T23:37:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T03:37:14","slug":"panthers-reach-for-a-wide-receiver-from-florida-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7084","title":{"rendered":"Panthers reach for a wide receiver from Florida State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7085\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7085\" style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/benjamin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/benjamin.jpg\" alt=\"Kelvin Benjamin.\" width=\"145\" height=\"180\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7085\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelvin Benjamin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Carolina Panthers, who parted ways with Steve Smith, were in desperate need of a wide receiver and they took one with the 28th pick of the NFL draft with the selection of Kelvin Benjamin from Florida State.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin was certainly not the best player on the board and most experts had another receiver &#8211; Marqise Lee of UCLA &#8211; ahead of him on the draft board. Most prognosticators had Benjamin, who only played two seasons with the Seminoles, as a second round caliber pick.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, Benjamin has tight end size (6-5, 240) and wide receiver skills, and he led the ACC in touchdown receptions. He is known for catching the game winner in the BCS Championship game last season.<\/p>\n<p>His talent continues to grow and he should be a No. 1 receiver at some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Panthers, who parted ways with Steve Smith, were in desperate need of a wide receiver and they took one with the 28th pick&#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-7084","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\/7084","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=7084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7087,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084\/revisions\/7087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}