{"id":416009,"date":"2023-02-19T16:19:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T21:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=416009"},"modified":"2023-03-01T10:00:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T15:00:31","slug":"panthers-hire-shawn-jefferson-as-wr-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/panthers-hire-shawn-jefferson-as-wr-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers hire Shawn Jefferson as WR coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/carolina-panthers\/\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> announced that the team agreed to terms with Shawn Jefferson to be the new wide receivers coach\u00a0under new head coach Frank Reich.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>Jefferson has a combined 30 years in the league between playing and coaching.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>He spent 13 seasons as a player with the Chargers, Patriots, Falcons, and Lions, he had 470 receptions for 7,023 yards and 29 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>A big-play threat throughout his career, Jefferson led the league with a 22.7 yards per catch average in 1998.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>Jefferson spent the last 17 years as an NFL assistant, working through stints with the Lions, Titans, Dolphins, Jets, and Cardinals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>He was the Cardinals&#8217; associate head coach last season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Panthers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Panthers<\/a> agree to terms with Shawn Jefferson as wide receivers coach<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S2DJJxr8Qt\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/S2DJJxr8Qt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Carolina Panthers (@Panthers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Panthers\/status\/1627096322108194816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Panthers announced that the team agreed to terms with Shawn Jefferson to be the new wide receivers coach\u00a0under new head coach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":416010,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17149,17498],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He will work under new head coach Frank Reich","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/416009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/416009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416009"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=416009"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=416009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}