{"id":415979,"date":"2026-01-16T03:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415979\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T03:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:04:07","slug":"mccaffrey-jones-ferguson-finalists-for-nfls-salute-to-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415979\/","title":{"rendered":"McCaffrey, Jones, Ferguson finalists for NFL&#8217;s Salute to Service Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/sf\/san-francisco-49ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> All-Pro running back <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3117251\/christian-mccaffrey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian McCaffrey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-vikings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> running back <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3042519\/aaron-jones-sr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Jones Sr<\/a>. and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-cowboys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> tight end <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4242355\/jake-ferguson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Ferguson<\/a> are the finalists for the 15th annual Salute to Service Award.<\/p>\n<p>The award is given to a person who displays &#8220;exceptional efforts&#8221; to honor and support members of the military community. The winner will be recognized at NFL Honors on Feb. 5 during Super Bowl week.<\/p>\n<p>The finalists were announced Thursday by the NFL and USAA.<\/p>\n<p>Niners tight end <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3040151\/george-kittle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Kittle<\/a>, the 2024 Salute to Service Award recipient, will be among the judges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; San Francisco 49ers All-Pro running back Christian McCaffrey, Minnesota Vikings running back Aaron Jones Sr.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-415979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}