{"id":1926685,"date":"2026-08-05T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1926685"},"modified":"2026-08-05T13:14:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:14:04","slug":"thurman-tabbed-to-mackey-award-preseason-watch-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1926685","title":{"rendered":"Thurman Tabbed To Mackey Award Preseason Watch List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jelani Thurman Practice Photo\" src=\"https:\/\/admin.goheels.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2026\/8\/5\/_CM116100805.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>North Carolina tight end Jelani Thurman has been named to the John Mackey Award Preseason Watch List, which recognizes the nation&#8217;s top collegiate tight ends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2026\/8\/5\/football-thurman-tabbed-to-mackey-award-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 tight end Jelani Thurman has been named to the John Mackey Award Preseason Watch List, which recognizes the nation&#8217;s top collegiate tight ends. Click&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1926686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926685","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\/1926685","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=1926685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926687,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926685\/revisions\/1926687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1926685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1926685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1926685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}