{"id":757444,"date":"2019-04-26T00:53:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T04:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=757444"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:44:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:44:03","slug":"redskins-thought-about-drafting-montez-sweat-at-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=757444","title":{"rendered":"Redskins thought about drafting Montez Sweat at 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASHBURN \u2014 The Washington Redskins traded back into the first round Thursday to grab Mississippi State pass rusher Montez Sweat.<\/p>\n<p>But Redskins coach Jay Gruden said the team seriously considered taking him with the 15th pick instead of quarterback Dwayne Haskins. Washington needed a pass rusher after former starter Preston &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/apr\/26\/redskins-thought-about-drafting-montez-sweat-15\/?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=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/apr\/26\/redskins-thought-about-drafting-montez-sweat-15\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Redskins thought about drafting Montez Sweat at 15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASHBURN \u2014 The Washington Redskins traded back into the first round Thursday to grab Mississippi State pass rusher Montez Sweat. But Redskins coach Jay Gruden said&#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-757444","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\/757444","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=757444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906369,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757444\/revisions\/1906369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}