JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WCYB) \u2014 Elizabethton High School graduate Parker Hughes has joined the Jacksonville Jaguars at rookie mini camp.<\/p>\n
While Hughes has not been in the sunshine state long, he and is fellow rookies are already getting to work.<\/p>\n
“Its been crazy. We’ve all been here working, from meetings to getting on the field,” Hughes said.<\/p>\n
Rookie mini camp wrapped up on Sunday, after three days of training. <\/p>\n
But even though the feeling of making it this far has set in for Hughes, he believes he has more work to do. <\/p>\n
“I have not made it yet in my eyes,” Hughes said. “I want to be the best player I can.” <\/p>\n
After graduating from Elizabethton, Hughes walked on to the football team at Middle Tennessee State. <\/p>\n
Culminating to his senior season, where the linebacker led the team with 100 tackles. <\/p>\n
But Hughes said he does not forget the importance Elizabethton played in his journey to the NFL.<\/p>\n
“I owe them everything.” Hughes said. “All these kids over there who don’t think they can make it, you never know.” <\/p>\n
The Jaguars will be back on the practice field on May 26, for OTA offseason workouts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WCYB) \u2014 Elizabethton High School graduate Parker Hughes has joined the Jacksonville Jaguars at rookie mini…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-266286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266286","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=266286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}