{"id":187018,"date":"2026-03-11T10:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187018\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:06:32","slug":"5-things-to-know-about-linebacker-devin-lloyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187018\/","title":{"rendered":"5 things to know about linebacker Devin Lloyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Jack of all trades in high school<\/p>\n<p>Coaches love players with experience playing multiple positions. It opens up possibilities in that secret part of the playbook. Devin Lloyd certainly brings a versatile background that could be used in interesting ways. While in high school in Chula Vista, California, Lloyd played wide receiver, safety, and punter.<\/p>\n<p>His time as a <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/kslsports.com\/ncaa\/utah\/a-mothers-perspective-how-devin-lloyd-went-from-an-unknown-talent-to-top-nfl-draft-pick\/485097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">high school basketball player is what ultimately earned him a football scholarship<\/a>. Utah tight ends coach Freddie Whittingham saw his basketball tape and told Lloyd&#8217;s mother, &#8220;I saw how he maneuvered. I heard he played football, but I was looking at how he moved around the court, ducking and dodging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His high school receiver background shows up in his ability not only to read the quarterback&#8217;s eyes but also to show soft hands on his interceptions. Before he had his pick-six on Mahomes, Lloyd returned two picks for a score in college as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack of all trades in high school Coaches love players with experience playing multiple positions. It opens up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[84731,46911,116,118,117,8943],"class_list":["post-187018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-2026-free-agency","tag-app-news","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}