{"id":247152,"date":"2026-04-26T08:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247152\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:43:11","slug":"jacksonville-jaguars-select-mtsu-lb-parker-hughes-in-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247152\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jaguars select MTSU LB Parker Hughes in 2026 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With the No. 240 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, the Jacksonville Jaguars selected Parker Hughes, linebacker, Middle Tennessee State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Linebacker was a popular position in Jaguars mock drafts, yet the team didn\u2019t come away with one until its final selection. Assuming he makes the final roster, Hughes figures to be a special teams contributor and backup to projected starters Foye Oluokun and Ventrell Miller during his rookie season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jaguars fans, let us know your initial thoughts in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the No. 240 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, the Jacksonville Jaguars selected Parker Hughes, linebacker, Middle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,6620,26216,6621,15359,117],"class_list":["post-247152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jaguars-depth-chart","tag-jacksonville-jaguars-draft","tag-jacksonville-jaguars-news","tag-jacksonville-jaguars-roster","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247152","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=247152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}