{"id":943997,"date":"2020-04-15T17:35:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=943997"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:29:34","slug":"mel-kiper-jr-thinks-the-panthers-will-get-the-3rd-best-player-in-the-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=943997","title":{"rendered":"Mel Kiper Jr. thinks the Panthers will get the 3rd best player in the NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN analyst Mel Kiper Jr. has the Panthers selecting Auburn defensive tackle Derrick Brown with the No. 7 overall pick in his latest mock draft. On an hour-long conference call \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article242034231.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article242034231.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\/article242034231.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Mel Kiper Jr. thinks the Panthers will get the 3rd best player in the NFL draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN analyst Mel Kiper Jr. has the Panthers selecting Auburn defensive tackle Derrick Brown with the No. 7 overall pick in his latest mock draft. On&#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-943997","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\/943997","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=943997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896125,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943997\/revisions\/1896125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=943997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=943997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=943997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}