{"id":1926546,"date":"2026-08-04T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1926546"},"modified":"2026-08-04T13:44:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T17:44:03","slug":"abou-jaoude-named-to-bronko-nagurski-trophy-preseason-watch-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1926546","title":{"rendered":"Abou Jaoude Named To Bronko Nagurski Trophy Preseason Watch List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Melkart Abou Jaoude\nUniversity of North Carolina Football v Stanford \nKenan Football Center  \nChapel Hill, NC  \nSaturday, November 8, 2025  \" src=\"https:\/\/admin.goheels.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2025\/11\/8\/Abou_Jaoude_Melkart.stan.FB.552.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>North Carolina defensive lineman Melkart Abou Jaoude has been named to the Bronko Nagurski Trophy Preseason Watch List, which is presented annually to the top defensive player in college football.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2026\/8\/4\/football-abou-jaoude-named-to-bronko-nagurski-trophy-preseason-watch-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina defensive lineman Melkart Abou Jaoude has been named to the Bronko Nagurski Trophy Preseason Watch List, which is presented annually to the top defensive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1926547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1926546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926548,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926546\/revisions\/1926548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1926546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1926546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1926546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}