{"id":265222,"date":"2026-04-25T01:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265222\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:35:08","slug":"jaguars-select-texas-am-te-nate-boerkircher-in-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265222\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars select Texas A&#038;M TE Nate Boerkircher in NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who will forever be a part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-am-aggies\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Texas A&amp;M<\/a> lore is now set to play on Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>Tight end Nate Boerkircher was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars\u00a0with the 56th pick in the second round\u00a0of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/nfl-draft\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">2026 NFL draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth-year senior played his final season of college football with the Aggies after walking on at Nebraska and spending five seasons with the Cornhuskers. He appeared in all 13 of A&amp;M\u2019s games last season, making eight starts and hauling in 19 catches for 198 yards and three touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his offensive contributions, the 24-year-old played consistently on kick-return coverage for the Aggies and has 452 career special teams snaps.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletic\u2019s Dane Brugler also offered a positive evaluation of Boerkircher\u2019s blocking ability and wrote that he brings \u201cthe catch-point talent and blocking refinement to earn a role in an NFL offense.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who will forever be a part of\u00a0Texas A&amp;M lore is now set to play on Sundays.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-265222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}