{"id":534544,"date":"2026-03-20T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/534544\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:11:07","slug":"harrison-smith-replaces-derwin-james-jr-in-flag-football-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/534544\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrison Smith replaces Derwin James Jr. in flag football tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days before the inaugural Fanatics Flag Football Classic, there\u2019s been an injury replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Fanatics has announced that Chargers safety Derwin James Jr. suffered a \u201cminor injury\u201d earlier in the week, before reporting to the event. He\u2019ll be replaced by longtime Vikings safety Harrison Smith.<\/p>\n<p>A first-round pick in 2012 and a 14-year veteran, the Vikings released Smith last week.<\/p>\n<p>Smith was a six-time Pro Bowler. He landed on the All-Pro first team in 2017 and the All-Pro second team in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>He joins the Wildcats team captained by Jayden Daniels and Joe Burrow in Saturday\u2019s three-team flag football tournament. Earlier this month, the event was moved from Saudi Arabia to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two days before the inaugural Fanatics Flag Football Classic, there\u2019s been an injury replacement. Fanatics has announced that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-534544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534544","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=534544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}