{"id":897602,"date":"2020-02-02T15:39:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T20:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=897602"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:16:01","slug":"vernon-davis-retiring-after-14-seasons-in-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=897602","title":{"rendered":"Vernon Davis retiring after 14 seasons in NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many different ways an athlete can announce their retirement. They can give an emotional press conference, for example, or post on social media that they&#8217;re calling it a career.<\/p>\n<p>Vernon Davis, though, had a different idea.<\/p>\n<p>The Redskins tight end announced he was stepping away from football Sunday &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/feb\/2\/vernon-davis-retiring-after-14-seasons-nfl\/?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\/2020\/feb\/2\/vernon-davis-retiring-after-14-seasons-nfl\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Vernon Davis retiring after 14 seasons in NFL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many different ways an athlete can announce their retirement. They can give an emotional press conference, for example, or post on social media that&#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-897602","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\/897602","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=897602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907934,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897602\/revisions\/1907934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}