{"id":425426,"date":"2026-08-06T13:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/425426\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T13:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:26:12","slug":"bulldog-breakdown-2-bulldogs-named-to-preseason-watchlists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/425426\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulldog Breakdown: 2 Bulldogs named to preseason watchlists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Two Bulldogs are being recognized in the preseason after being named to watchlists for the nation&#8217;s top players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Senior defensive back Simeon Harris has been added to the watch list for the Bronko Nagurski Award, given to college football&#8217;s best defensive player of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Last season, Simeon was second on the team in tackles and ranked 7th in the nation for interceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Senior defensive lineman DJ Lafitte named to the Outland Trophy watch list, the award given to the nation&#8217;s top interior lineman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Simeon &#8211; a natural leader. Very vocal, understands football, very aware of his surroundings and can help everyone in the backend. With DJ, his evolution while he&#8217;s been here. I knew DJ before I got to fresno&#8230; and the young man that you see now&#8230;&#8221; Fresno State Football head coach Matt Entz said. &#8220;Young men have an opportunity to grow up in programs like ours where it&#8217;s all about the development it&#8217;s all about the growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Both Simeon and DJ were also named to the Pac-12&#8217;s preseason Impact Players list.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Two Bulldogs are being recognized in the preseason after being named to watchlists for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[169640,7129,112,114,113,1081],"class_list":["post-425426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-169640","tag-bulldog-breakdown","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-no-ta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}