{"id":147312,"date":"2025-08-15T08:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/147312\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T08:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:14:14","slug":"active-players-brock-bowers-tory-taylor-devonta-smith-earn-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/147312\/","title":{"rendered":"Active players Brock Bowers, Tory Taylor, DeVonta Smith earn spots\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wide receivers<\/strong> \u2014 <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/devonta-smith\/\" title=\"DeVonta Smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DeVonta Smith<\/a>, Alabama, 2020; Desmond Howard, Michigan, 1991.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tackles<\/strong> \u2014 Jonathan Ogden, UCLA, 1995; Bryant McKinnie, Miami, 2001.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guards<\/strong> \u2014 Brad Budde, Southern California, 1979; John Smith, Notre Dame, 1927.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Center<\/strong> \u2014 Dave Rimington, Nebraska, 1981-82.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tight end<\/strong> \u2014 Keith Jackson, Oklahoma, 1986-87.<\/p>\n<p><strong>QB<\/strong> \u2014 Vince Young, Texas, 2005.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Running backs<\/strong> \u2014 Archie Griffin, Ohio State, 1974-75; Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh, 1976.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kicker<\/strong> \u2014 Martin Gramatica, Kansas State, 1997.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All-purpose<\/strong> \u2014 Tim Brown, Notre Dame, 1986-87.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defensive ends<\/strong> \u2014 Bubba Smith, Michigan State, 1966; Bruce Smith, Virginia Tech, 1984.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defensive tackles<\/strong> \u2014 LeeRoy Selmon, Oklahoma, 1975; Warren Sapp, Miami, 1994.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Linebackers<\/strong> \u2014 Jerry Robinson, UCLA, 1976-77-78; Brian Bosworth, Oklahoma, 1985-86; Lawrence Taylor, North Carolina, 1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cornerbacks<\/strong> \u2014 Champ Bailey, Georgia, 1998; Tyrann Mathieu, LSU, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Safeties<\/strong> \u2014 Bennie Blades, Miami, 1986-87; Al Brosky, Illinois, 1951.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Punter<\/strong> \u2014 Reggie Roby, Iowa, 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wide receivers \u2014 DeVonta Smith, Alabama, 2020; Desmond Howard, Michigan, 1991. Tackles \u2014 Jonathan Ogden, UCLA, 1995; Bryant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1578,61675,69598,50,62,56578,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-147312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-brock-bowers","10":"tag-devonta-smith","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tory-taylor","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115031786617305897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147312","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=147312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}