{"id":1928789,"date":"2026-08-20T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928789"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:13:57","slug":"brody-barnhardt-named-to-2026-comeback-player-of-the-year-watch-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928789","title":{"rendered":"Brody Barnhardt Named to 2026 Comeback Player of the Year Watch List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brody Barnhardt\" src=\"https:\/\/gopack.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2026\/8\/19\/BarnhardtbigWF_GF_.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RALEIGH, NC \u2013 After missing much of last season due to a season-ending injury, NC State safety Brody Barnhardt has been named to the 2026 Comeback Player of the Year Watch List by the College Sports Communicators, in association with The Associated Press (AP) and the Fiesta Sports Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gopack.com\/news\/2026\/8\/20\/football-brody-barnhardt-named-to-2026-comeback-player-of-the-year-watch-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, NC \u2013 After missing much of last season due to a season-ending injury, NC State safety Brody Barnhardt has been named to the 2026 Comeback&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1928790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928789","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=1928789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928791,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928789\/revisions\/1928791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}