{"id":892046,"date":"2026-05-15T16:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/892046\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T16:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:39:19","slug":"second-rounder-lee-hunter-signs-rookie-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/892046\/","title":{"rendered":"Second-rounder Lee Hunter signs rookie contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was a first-team All-Big 12 pick last year, after posting 41 tackles, 11 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, and a forced fumble. He could be an immediate benefit on run downs with his size.<\/p>\n<p>He also seems comfortable here in his new situation, calling it a &#8220;blessing&#8221; to be drafted to a team that features <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/derrick-brown\/\" title=\"Derrick Brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derrick Brown<\/a> up front. And by the smile on his face and constant chatter, it seems to confirm his feeling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just like to have fun,&#8221; Hunter said. &#8220;I like to juice myself up, juice guys up around me, and if you got juice, I feel like energy just rubs off. And if everybody around you has got juice, that&#8217;s a scary defense.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was a first-team All-Big 12 pick last year, after posting 41 tackles, 11 tackles for loss, 2.5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[79,235,260,2567,7,81,6,236,18001,3571],"class_list":["post-892046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-panthers","tag-app-news","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-carolinapanthers","tag-football","tag-latest-news","tag-nfl","tag-panthers","tag-spotlight","tag-transactions"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116579582854569655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892046","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=892046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}