{"id":34762,"date":"2017-05-01T09:32:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T13:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=34762"},"modified":"2017-05-01T09:33:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T13:33:12","slug":"unionvilles-sampson-signs-with-nfls-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=34762","title":{"rendered":"Unionville&#8217;s Sampson signs with NFL&#8217;s Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3902\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/RichieSampsonCC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3902\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3902\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/RichieSampsonCC-350x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richie Sampson in action for Coastal Carolina. Photo courtesy Coastal Carolina Athletics.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Richie Sampson, a star safety for Coastal Carolina \u2014 and formerly an all-Conference and Player of the Year performer for Unionville High School \u2014 was signed Sunday as a free agent by the Minnesota Vikings.<\/p>\n<p>Sampson, a 6-2, 205 lb. safety, will attempt to become the first former Unionville player to make it to the NFL.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At Coastal Carolina, Sampson became one of the Big South&#8217;s top defensive backs, before battling injuries that ultimately sidelined him for the 2015 season. But Sampson, who graduated in 2016 with a degree in finance, but came back for his red shirt senior senior for the Chanticleers and made the most of it. While pursuing a second degree in marketing at the school \u2014 he had a stand out season in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He was third in tackles, pass break ups and interceptions for Coastal Carolina, while earning game team defensive MVP twice.\u00a0Sampson showed well at the school&#8217;s Pro Day and had appeared on some potential draft lists as a possible late-round draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>At Unionville, Sampson was a versatile athlete, anchoring both the defense as a defensive back and powering the run game. During his senior season, 2011, Sampson was arguable the best football player in Chester County, winning numerous awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richie Sampson, a star safety for Coastal Carolina \u2014 and formerly an all-Conference and Player of the Year performer for Unionville High School \u2014 was signed Sunday as a free agent by the Minnesota Vikings. Sampson, a 6-2, 205 lb. safety, will attempt to become the first former Unionville player to make it to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9760,7426,31,9761,6139,9759,24],"class_list":["post-34762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-coastal-carolina","tag-featured","tag-football","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-nfl","tag-richie-sampson","tag-unionville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34763,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34762\/revisions\/34763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}