{"id":246277,"date":"2026-04-25T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246277\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:20:09","slug":"former-nebraska-tight-end-nate-boerkircher-drafted-by-jacksonville-in-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246277\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Nebraska tight end Nate Boerkircher drafted by Jacksonville in second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) \u2014 Former Nebraska tight end Nate Boerkircher was drafted in the second round of the 2026 NFL Draft on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Jacksonville Jaguars took Boerkircher with the 56th pick in the draft.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have drafted Texas A&amp;M TE Nate Boerkircher with the No. 56 overall pick!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/farahandfarah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@farahandfarah<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFLDraft?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#NFLDraft<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RKjLuwTnjr\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/RKjLuwTnjr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jacksonville Jaguars (@Jaguars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jaguars\/status\/2047839829753225380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Aurora, Nebraska, native walked on at Nebraska in 2020 and saw his first action as a Husker in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Over 52 games at Nebraska, Boerkircher hauled in 38 receptions for 417 yards and four touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>He transferred to Texas A&amp;M in 2025, grabbing 19 passes for 198 yards and three touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Round 2 pick 56 Nate Boerkircher meets with the media.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/farahandfarah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@farahandfarah<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFLDraft?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#NFLDraft<\/a> on NFLN <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AeQiOGztNu\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/AeQiOGztNu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jacksonville Jaguars (@Jaguars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jaguars\/status\/2047845456466587780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) \u2014 Former Nebraska tight end Nate Boerkircher was drafted in the second round of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29106,57,12787,116,118,117,1630,47972,10010,46388,3012],"class_list":{"0":"post-246277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-aurora","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-huskers","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","13":"tag-jacksonville-news","14":"tag-jaguars","15":"tag-nate-boerkircher","16":"tag-nebraska","17":"tag-nfl-draft","18":"tag-texas-am"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246277","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=246277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}