{"id":1943566,"date":"2026-11-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1943566"},"modified":"2026-11-11T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:42:10","slug":"thurman-named-semifinalist-for-mackey-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1943566","title":{"rendered":"Thurman Named Semifinalist For Mackey Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jelani Thurman Action Photo from Pitt Game\" src=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2026\/11\/11\/20261010_PITT_MH_207.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the midst of one of the best seasons by a tight end in program history, North Carolina&#8217;s Jelani Thurman has been named a semifinalist for the John Mackey Award, which recognizes the nation&#8217;s top collegiate tight end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2026\/11\/11\/football-thurman-named-semifinalist-for-mackey-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of one of the best seasons by a tight end in program history, North Carolina&#8217;s Jelani Thurman has been named a semifinalist for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1943567,"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-1943566","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\/1943566","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=1943566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943568,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943566\/revisions\/1943568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}