{"id":61078,"date":"2014-09-02T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=61078"},"modified":"2014-09-02T14:15:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T18:15:47","slug":"pro-football-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Football Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"

The number of 麻豆原创 players competing in the NFL<\/a> continues to grow from past seasons as 16 former Knights are currently on NFL rosters to kick off the 2014 campaign.<\/p>\n

From 麻豆原创’s 2013 squad, Blake Bortles (Jacksonville), Storm Johnson (Jacksonville), Chris Martin (New England) and Justin McCray (Tennessee) have all earned spots with NFL clubs.<\/p>\n

The first Knight to start up 2014 will be veteran Josh Sitton, whose Green Bay Packers travel to Seattle for a Thursday night tussle.<\/p>\n

North of the border, four Knights have been in action, highlighted by A.J. Guyton and Joe Burnett helping to guide the Edmonton Eskimos to a 7-2 record with nine games to play in the regular season.<\/p>\n

NFL Opening Day Rosters, Knights
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

  • WR Kamar Aiken – Baltimore Ravens<\/li>\n
  • QB Blake Bortles – Jacksonville Jaguars<\/li>\n
  • CB A.J. Bouye – Houston Texans<\/li>\n
  • DT Leger Douzable – New York Jets<\/li>\n
  • LS Charley Hughlett – New England Patriots (Practice Squad)<\/li>\n
  • S Kemal Ishmael – Atlanta Falcons<\/li>\n
  • RB Storm Johnson – Jacksonville Jaguars<\/li>\n
  • WR Brandon Marshall – Chicago Bears<\/li>\n
  • OL Chris Martin – New England Patriots (Practice Squad)<\/li>\n
  • OG Justin McCray – Tennessee Titans (Practice Squad)<\/li>\n
  • FB Bruce Miller – San Francisco 49ers<\/li>\n
  • RB Latavius Murray – Oakland Raiders<\/li>\n
  • K Matt Prater – Denver Broncos<\/li>\n
  • OT Jah Reid – Baltimore Ravens<\/li>\n
  • CB Josh Robinson – Minnesota Vikings<\/li>\n
  • OT Josh Sitton – Green Bay Packers<\/strong><\/li>\n

    CFL Roster, Knights
    \n<\/strong><\/p>\n

  • CB Joe Burnett – Edmonton Eskimos – 1 KR, 15 YDS, 18 TACKLES, 1 INT, 32 YDS<\/li>\n
  • WR A.J. Guyton – Edmonton Eskimos – 31 REC, 264 YDS, 2 TD, 12 PR, 39 YDS<\/li>\n
  • WR Quincy McDuffie – Hamilton Tiger-Cats – 3 KR, 47 YDS, 5 PR, 105 YDS<\/li>\n
  • DL Keith Shologan – Ottawa REDBLACKS – 10 TACKLES<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of 麻豆原创 players competing in the NFL continues to grow from past seasons as 16 former Knights are currently on NFL rosters to kick off the 2014 campaign. From 麻豆原创’s 2013 squad, Blake Bortles (Jacksonville), Storm Johnson (Jacksonville), Chris Martin (New England) and Justin McCray (Tennessee) have all earned spots with NFL clubs. The first Knight to start…","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":42925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[503,574,623,1810,2555,2556,3031,6343,202],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-61078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-blake-bortles","tag-brandon-marshall","tag-bruce-miller","tag-football","tag-josh-robinson","tag-josh-sitton","tag-matt-prater","tag-storm-johnson","tag-alumni"],"yoast_head":"\nPro Football Knights | 麻豆原创 News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The number of 麻豆原创 players competing in the NFL continues to grow from past seasons as 16 former Knights are currently on NFL rosters to kick off the 2014\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pro Football Knights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The number of 麻豆原创 players competing in the NFL continues to grow from past seasons as 16 former Knights are currently on NFL rosters to kick off the 2014\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"麻豆原创 News | 麻豆原创 Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/麻豆原创\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-09-02T14:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-09-02T18:15:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2012\/11\/sitton.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"631\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"366\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Terry Helms\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@麻豆原创\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@麻豆原创\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Terry Helms\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/pro-football-knights\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/pro-football-knights\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Terry Helms\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f83b77800ced2081c86229648f953680\"},\"headline\":\"Pro Football Knights\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-09-02T14:30:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-09-02T18:15:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/pro-football-knights\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":276,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/pro-football-knights\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2012\\\/11\\\/sitton.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"blake bortles\",\"Brandon Marshall\",\"Bruce Miller\",\"football\",\"Josh Robinson\",\"Josh Sitton\",\"Matt Prater\",\"storm johnson\",\"麻豆原创 Alumni\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Sports\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2014\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/pro-football-knights\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/pro-football-knights\\\/\",\"name\":\"Pro Football Knights | 麻豆原创 News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/pro-football-knights\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/pro-football-knights\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2012\\\/11\\\/sitton.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-09-02T14:30:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-09-02T18:15:47+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f83b77800ced2081c86229648f953680\"},\"description\":\"The number of 麻豆原创 players competing in the NFL continues to grow from past seasons as 16 former Knights are currently on NFL rosters to kick off the 2014\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/pro-football-knights\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/pro-football-knights\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/pro-football-knights\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2012\\\/11\\\/sitton.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2012\\\/11\\\/sitton.jpeg\",\"width\":631,\"height\":366},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/pro-football-knights\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Pro Football Knights\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"麻豆原创 News | 麻豆原创 Today\",\"description\":\"Central Florida Research, Arts, Technology, Student Life and College News, Stories and More\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f83b77800ced2081c86229648f953680\",\"name\":\"Terry Helms\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8db26b6f6d60d840801b3dad7f306eb53326757ffd70fcddc856a9ca91688420?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8db26b6f6d60d840801b3dad7f306eb53326757ffd70fcddc856a9ca91688420?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8db26b6f6d60d840801b3dad7f306eb53326757ffd70fcddc856a9ca91688420?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Terry Helms\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/author\\\/thelms\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/pro-football-knights\\\/#local-main-organization-logo\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\",\"caption\":\"麻豆原创\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Pro Football Knights | 麻豆原创 News","description":"The number of 麻豆原创 players competing in the NFL continues to grow from past seasons as 16 former Knights are currently on NFL rosters to kick off the 2014","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Pro Football Knights","og_description":"The number of 麻豆原创 players competing in the NFL continues to grow from past seasons as 16 former Knights are currently on NFL rosters to kick off the 2014","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/","og_site_name":"麻豆原创 News | 麻豆原创 Today","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/麻豆原创","article_published_time":"2014-09-02T14:30:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-09-02T18:15:47+00:00","og_image":[{"width":631,"height":366,"url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2012\/11\/sitton.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Terry Helms","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@麻豆原创","twitter_site":"@麻豆原创","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Terry Helms","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/"},"author":{"name":"Terry Helms","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/f83b77800ced2081c86229648f953680"},"headline":"Pro Football Knights","datePublished":"2014-09-02T14:30:00+00:00","dateModified":"2014-09-02T18:15:47+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/"},"wordCount":276,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2012\/11\/sitton.jpeg","keywords":["blake bortles","Brandon Marshall","Bruce Miller","football","Josh Robinson","Josh Sitton","Matt Prater","storm johnson","麻豆原创 Alumni"],"articleSection":["Sports"],"inLanguage":"en-US","copyrightYear":"2014","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/","name":"Pro Football Knights | 麻豆原创 News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2012\/11\/sitton.jpeg","datePublished":"2014-09-02T14:30:00+00:00","dateModified":"2014-09-02T18:15:47+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/f83b77800ced2081c86229648f953680"},"description":"The number of 麻豆原创 players competing in the NFL continues to grow from past seasons as 16 former Knights are currently on NFL rosters to kick off the 2014","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2012\/11\/sitton.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2012\/11\/sitton.jpeg","width":631,"height":366},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Pro Football Knights"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/","name":"麻豆原创 News | 麻豆原创 Today","description":"Central Florida Research, Arts, Technology, Student Life and College News, Stories and More","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/f83b77800ced2081c86229648f953680","name":"Terry Helms","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8db26b6f6d60d840801b3dad7f306eb53326757ffd70fcddc856a9ca91688420?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8db26b6f6d60d840801b3dad7f306eb53326757ffd70fcddc856a9ca91688420?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8db26b6f6d60d840801b3dad7f306eb53326757ffd70fcddc856a9ca91688420?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Terry Helms"},"url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/author\/thelms\/"},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pro-football-knights\/#local-main-organization-logo","url":"","contentUrl":"","caption":"麻豆原创"}]}},"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2012\/11\/sitton-300x174.jpeg","primary_category":26,"primary_tag":1810,"author_byline":"Brian Ormiston","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61081,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61078\/revisions\/61081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61078"},{"taxonomy":"tu_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tu_author?post=61078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}