{"id":245570,"date":"2026-04-25T01:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245570\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:17:14","slug":"jaguars-nate-boerkircher-picked-by-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245570\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars&#8217; Nate Boerkircher: Picked by Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/JAC\/jacksonville-jaguars\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/416.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/JAC\/jacksonville-jaguars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaguars<\/a> selected <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/players\/3162867\/nate-boerkircher\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boerkircher<\/a> in the second round of the 2026 NFL Draft, 56th overall.<\/p>\n<p>Boerkircher spent five of the first six years of his college career with Nebraska (joining the team as a walk on in 2020) before ending things with Texas A&amp;M in 2025, when he started in eight of 13 games while logging 19 catches for 198 yards and three touchdowns. He wasn&#8217;t known as a pass catcher during his time with the Cornhuskers, but he established himself as a reliable target who could fight through coverage to complete catches with the Aggies. Brenton Strange is slated as the Jaguars&#8217; top tight end following a career year in 2025, so Boerkircher figures to compete with Quintin Morris and Hunter Long for the TE2 job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jaguars selected Boerkircher in the second round of the 2026 NFL Draft, 56th overall. Boerkircher spent five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10323,116,118,121,117,47972],"class_list":{"0":"post-245570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-fantasy-football","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonville-news","13":"tag-nate-boerkircher"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245570","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=245570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}