{"id":269,"date":"2011-12-16T16:28:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T21:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2011\/12\/16\/postseason-honors-continue-for-ryan-steed-as-he-pursues-goal-of-playing-in-nfl\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T22:02:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T03:02:33","slug":"postseason-honors-continue-for-ryan-steed-as-he-pursues-goal-of-playing-in-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/postseason-honors-continue-for-ryan-steed-as-he-pursues-goal-of-playing-in-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Postseason honors continue for Ryan Steed as he pursues goal of playing in NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1316\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/steed-ryan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1316 lazyload\" title=\"steed-ryan\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/steed-ryan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"274\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 209px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 209\/274;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Steed<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman cornerback Ryan Steed continues to garner postseason honors following his senior season.\u00a0 He has been named first-team to both the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Associated Press All-America and AFCA All-America squads, and has accepted an invitation to play in the 2012 Senior Bowl.\u00a0 Steed is also projected to be selected in the NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>The Mt. Pleasant native totaled 46 tackles, four interceptions, and four pass deflections in a 2011 campaign that also featured a 48-yard fumble return for a touchdown against Elon.\u00a0 He was a three-time All-Southern Conference selection and finished his Paladin tenure with 180 tackles and tallied 38 passes defensed and 14 interceptions, the third and fourth best marks, respectively, in Paladin football history.\u00a0 He returned three pickoffs for touchdowns, forced four fumbles, recovered three fumbles, recorded a sack, and blocked three kicks in his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since finishing his final football season this fall, Furman cornerback Ryan Steed has been named to several All-America teams, invited to play in the 2012 Senior Bowl, and projected to be selected in the upcoming NFL draft. \u00a0 A <em>Greenville News<\/em> article looks back at Steed&#8217;s stellar career with the Paladins and looks ahead as the Mt. Pleasant native begins working toward his\u00a0goal of playing in the NFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}