{"id":387721,"date":"2026-07-27T14:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387721\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:31:32","slug":"mountain-west-media-days-el-pasos-own-jayden-wilson-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387721\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain West Media Days: El Paso&#8217;s own Jayden Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (KFOX 14, CBS4) \u2014 UTEP linebacker Jayden Wilson emerged as one of the Miners&#8217; top defensive playmakers in 2025, thriving in his first season with his hometown program. Entering Year 2 in El Paso, Wilson has embraced a leadership role and is expected to be a key piece of UTEP&#8217;s defense as the program begins a new chapter in the Mountain West.<\/p>\n<p>Having started his collegiate career at New Mexico, Wilson is no stranger to the conference and offers a unique perspective on UTEP&#8217;s transition.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson sat down with Chas Messman for an exclusive interview at Mountain West Media Days, sponsored by GECU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KFOX 14, CBS4) \u2014 UTEP linebacker Jayden Wilson emerged as one of the Miners&#8217; top defensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-387721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387721","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=387721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}