{"id":412324,"date":"2026-01-16T03:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412324\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T03:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:53:08","slug":"christian-mccaffrey-aaron-jones-jake-ferguson-named-finalists-for-nfls-salute-to-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412324\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian McCaffrey, Aaron Jones, Jake Ferguson named finalists for NFL\u2019s Salute to Service Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK &#8212; San Francisco 49ers All-Pro running back Christian McCaffrey, Minnesota Vikings running back Aaron Jones Sr. and Dallas Cowboys tight end Jake Ferguson are the finalists for the 15th annual Salute to Service Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">The finalists were announced Thursday by the NFL and USAA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Niners tight end George Kittle, 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":412325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[173343,49,48,173342,173344,514,82],"class_list":["post-412324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-aaron-jones-sr-sports-football-player-player-statscom-741314","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-christian-mccaffrey-sports-football-player-player-statscom-830517","tag-jake-ferguson-sports-football-player-player-statscom-1065361","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}