{"id":245836,"date":"2026-04-25T05:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245836\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T05:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:38:12","slug":"jaguars-jalen-huskey-heading-to-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245836\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars&#8217; Jalen Huskey: Heading to 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\/28901425\/jalen-huskey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huskey<\/a> in the third round of the 2026 NFL Draft, 100th overall.<\/p>\n<p>Huskey (6-foot-1, 196 pounds) began his collegiate career in a depth role at Bowling Green before emerging as a starter in 2023, then transferring to Maryland where he started from 2024-25. Across his three total seasons as a starter, Huskey compiled an impressive 11 interceptions, showcasing instinct to make up for his lack of high-end athletic testing. Huskey brings versatility and experience to the table, and it wouldn&#8217;t be surprising to see him surpass Caleb Ransaw (lower leg) and Rayuan Lane as the No. 3 man in the safety rotation behind starters Eric Murray and Antonio Johnson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jaguars selected Huskey in the third round of the 2026 NFL Draft, 100th overall. Huskey (6-foot-1, 196&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10323,116,118,121,117,108148],"class_list":{"0":"post-245836","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-jalen-huskey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245836","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=245836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245836\/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=245836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}