{"id":1930561,"date":"2026-08-31T10:22:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1930561"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:47:02","slug":"tight-end-thurman-turns-heads-tops-last-seasons-numbers-at-ohio-state-in-one-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1930561","title":{"rendered":"Tight end Thurman turns heads, tops last season\u2019s numbers at Ohio State in one game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN \u2014 Tight ends weren\u2019t a big part of the passing game last season, but an Ohio State transfer is changing that in a big way. In one game, Jelani Thurman, who is on the watchlist for the John Mackey Award that goes to the nation\u2019s top tight end, topped his season total from a year ago with the Buckeyes.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/08\/31\/tight-end-thurman-turns-heads-tops-last-seasons-numbers-at-ohio-state-in-one-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tight end Thurman turns heads, tops last season\u2019s numbers at Ohio State in one game<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/08\/31\/tight-end-thurman-turns-heads-tops-last-seasons-numbers-at-ohio-state-in-one-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN \u2014 Tight ends weren\u2019t a big part of the passing game last season, but an Ohio State transfer is changing that in a big way&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1930600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1930561","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\/1930561","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1930561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930562,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930561\/revisions\/1930562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1930561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1930561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1930561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}