{"id":347,"date":"2025-04-26T01:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T01:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/347\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T01:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T01:17:10","slug":"packers-select-n-c-state-t-anthony-belton-in-2nd-round-no-54-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/347\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers select N.C. State T Anthony Belton in 2nd round, No. 54 overall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREEN BAY \u2013 The Packers went with a big man in the second round of the draft Friday night, selecting N.C. State offensive tackle Anthony Belton at No. 54 overall.<\/p>\n<p>Belton (6-6, 336) started at left tackle for the Wolfpack over the past three seasons, opening 33 games overall. He was a third-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference pick in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last three seasons, Belton did not give up more than three sacks in any one year, according to Pro Football Focus, averaging a little over 400 pass-blocking snaps per season.<\/p>\n<p>The Tallahassee, Fla., native attended both Florida State University High School and Georgia Military Academy.<\/p>\n<p>Belton joins a Green Bay offensive line room that had three draft picks added last year, including first-rounder Jordan Morgan, who is expected to compete with Rasheed Walker at left tackle this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREEN BAY \u2013 The Packers went with a big man in the second round of the draft Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[650,651,652,508,7,34,132,270,507,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-2025pick54","9":"tag-anthony-belton","10":"tag-draft-anthony-belton","11":"tag-draft-tracker-card","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-homepage-cp","14":"tag-news-2025-draft","15":"tag-news-draft","16":"tag-news-national-feature","17":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}