{"id":1943337,"date":"2026-11-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1943337"},"modified":"2026-11-10T12:02:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:02:59","slug":"lewis-named-chuck-bednarik-award-semifinalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1943337","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Named Chuck Bednarik Award Semifinalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Xavier Lewis Action Photo at UConn\" src=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2026\/11\/10\/20261107_UCONN_MH_215.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>North Carolina defensive tackle Xavier Lewis has been named one of 18 semifinalists for the 2026 Chuck Bednarik Award, the Maxwell Football Club announced Tuesday. The award is presented annually to the nation&#8217;s most outstanding defensive player.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2026\/11\/10\/football-lewis-named-chuck-bednarik-award-semifinalist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina defensive tackle Xavier Lewis has been named one of 18 semifinalists for the 2026 Chuck Bednarik Award, the Maxwell Football Club announced Tuesday. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1943338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943337","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\/1943337","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=1943337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943339,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943337\/revisions\/1943339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}