{"id":755882,"date":"2019-04-22T15:32:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T19:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=755882"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:43:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:43:52","slug":"no-1-best-nfl-draft-pick-in-panthers-history-steve-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=755882","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 best NFL Draft pick in Panthers history: Steve Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the bright side of the NFL Draft, as we re-visit the 10 best picks in Carolina Panthers history: No. 1 best pick: WR Steve Smith (2001) The Panthers&#8217; \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article229507719.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article229507719.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article229507719.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"No. 1 best NFL Draft pick in Panthers history: Steve Smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the bright side of the NFL Draft, as we re-visit the 10 best picks in Carolina Panthers history: No. 1 best pick: WR Steve&#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-755882","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\/755882","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=755882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897101,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755882\/revisions\/1897101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}