{"id":606087,"date":"2026-04-25T18:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/606087\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:44:11","slug":"with-the-no-129-overall-pick-the-panthers-choose-cornerback-will-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/606087\/","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":606088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[68019,18789,399,829,398,396,397,99,206448],"class_list":{"0":"post-606087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-app-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-ncaafootball","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-will-lee-iii"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606087","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=606087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}