{"id":400048,"date":"2026-01-10T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/400048\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T23:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:30:07","slug":"with-no-injuries-panthers-had-choices-to-make-for-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/400048\/","title":{"rendered":"With no injuries, Panthers had choices to make for playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since missing the first four games on injured reserve, Ray had played in the remaining 13 regular season games. But with <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/tershawn-wharton\/\" title=\"Tershawn Wharton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tershawn Wharton<\/a> back and healthy after missing the last four games, they opted for rookie <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/cam-jackson\/\" title=\"Cam Jackson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cam Jackson<\/a> as the fifth lineman in the rotation.<\/p>\n<p>The last time they played the Rams in Week 13, they were without four key pieces on defense.<\/p>\n<p>But today, they&#8217;re at full strength, for the first home playoff game in 10 years at Bank of America Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since missing the first four games on injured reserve, Ray had played in the remaining 13 regular season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[193153,18789,48331,49907,829,193154,99],"class_list":["post-400048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2026-nfl-playoffs","tag-app-news","tag-gameday","tag-inactives","tag-latest-news","tag-los-angeles-rams-at-carolina-panthers-2025-post-1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}