{"id":266115,"date":"2026-04-25T18:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266115\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:07:15","slug":"with-the-no-129-overall-pick-the-panthers-choose-cornerback-will-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266115\/","title":{"rendered":"With the No. 129 overall pick, the Panthers choose cornerback Will Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE \u2014 The Panthers added some depth and competition to the secondary with their fourth-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>With the 119th overall selection, the Panthers took Texas A&amp;M cornerback Will Lee III<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-1, 189-pound Lee started the last two years for the Aggies after transferring from Kansas State (he began in junior college in Iowa).<\/p>\n<p>He had two interceptions as a junior and returned one for a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s an experienced boundary corner with size and long arms, which is one of the prerequisites in this defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE \u2014 The Panthers added some depth and competition to the secondary with their fourth-round pick. With the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21872,99352,1194,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-266115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-app-news","10":"tag-latest-news","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}