{"id":217,"date":"2007-12-19T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T19:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/12\/19\/sepulveda-stands-out-for-steelers\/"},"modified":"2007-12-19T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T19:39:20","slug":"sepulveda-stands-out-for-steelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/12\/sepulveda-stands-out-for-steelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepulveda stands out for Steelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/sepulveda-steelers-1207.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Sepulveda\" align=\"right\" \/>A lot of people questioned the Pittsburgh Steelers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/football\/2007-08-23-1049039497_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\">traded up to draft Baylor&#8217;s Daniel Sepulveda<\/a> in the fourth round this year. After all, it&#8217;s not often that a punter even gets drafted at all.<\/p>\n<p>Sepulveda has made the Steelers&#8217; move pay off this year, and he was rewarded by being named <a href=\"http:\/\/news.steelers.com\/article\/86287\/\" target=\"_blank\">the team&#8217;s rookie of the year<\/a> today. In his first year as a pro, Sepulveda leads the NFL with 43.5 percent of his punts landing inside the opponent&#8217;s 20-yard line. He also ranks fifth among full-time AFC punters in net yards. Pretty good for a rookie!<\/p>\n<p><em>(Bonus link: Remember when <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.aol.com\/fanhouse\/2007\/05\/03\/steelers-rookie-punter-daniel-sepulveda-jacks-up-returner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sepulveda &#8220;de-cleated&#8221; North Texas&#8217; return man<\/a>? You can move the man from linebacker, but you can&#8217;t take the linebacker out of the man.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Daniel!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people questioned the Pittsburgh Steelers traded up to draft Baylor&#8217;s Daniel Sepulveda in the fourth round this year. After all, it&#8217;s not often that a punter even gets drafted at all. Sepulveda has made the Steelers&#8217; move pay off this year, and he was rewarded by being named the team&#8217;s rookie of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}