{"id":131336,"date":"2025-08-09T09:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131336\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T09:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:07:20","slug":"solid-start-for-top-draft-picks-in-opening-loss-to-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131336\/","title":{"rendered":"Solid start for top draft picks, in opening loss to Browns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth-round running back <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/trevor-etienne\/\" title=\"Trevor Etienne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trevor Etienne<\/a> muffed a punt in the first quarter, in a spot they&#8217;re looking for someone to claim.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran special teamer <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/nick-scott\/\" title=\"Nick Scott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Scott<\/a> actually ran into Etienne, knocking him off balance and into the ball.<\/p>\n<p>The Browns recovered and scored a touchdown two plays later, with Browns starting quarterback Shedeur Sanders throwing his first preseason touchdown pass.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers are auditioning a number of players for return roles, among a lot of special teams turnover this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>They also had multiple penalties on a kickoff coverage, and allowed a 30-yard punt return to start the second half, the kinds of mistakes they&#8217;re not in a position to afford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fourth-round running back Trevor Etienne muffed a punt in the first quarter, in a spot they&#8217;re looking for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[55799,25714,51,105,50,79838,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-131336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-2025-training-camp","9":"tag-app-news","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-rapid-reactions","14":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114998021016838834","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}