{"id":54149,"date":"2025-11-18T07:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54149\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T07:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:01:14","slug":"jacob-rodriguez-named-big-12-defensive-player-of-the-week-for-third-straight-week-fourth-time-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54149\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Rodriguez named \u201cBig 12 Defensive Player of the Week\u201d for third-straight week, fourth time this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; While Texas Tech linebacker Jacob Rodriguez continues to campaign for his chance to hold the Heisman Trophy at New York\u2019s Lincoln Center, there\u2019s no shortage of honors rolling in from within the conference. On Monday, he was named the \u201cBig 12 Defensive Player of the Week\u201d for the third week in a row, fourth time overall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">With four minutes to play in the first half in Texas Tech\u2019s 48-9 win over UCF, Rodriguez picked off Knight QB Tayven Jackson, before he was brought down at the UCF 23. That pick lead to a Red Raider touchdown moments later- Rodriguez\u2019 fourth interception this season, and the ninth turnover he\u2019s been responsible for. In Saturday\u2019s win, he also reached the 100-tackle plateau. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Early in Saturday\u2019s game \u201cJ-ROD\u201d also made a case for being the \u2018offensive player of the week\u2019 with his two-yard touchdown run of a \u201cquarterback keeper\u201d which gave the Red Raiders an early 14-0 lead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rodriguez and the No. 6 Red Raiders (10-1, 7-1 Big 12) are off this week, but will return for their regular season finale Saturday, Nov. 29 against the West Virginia Mountaineers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; While Texas Tech linebacker Jacob Rodriguez continues to campaign for his chance to hold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[315,261,3785,168,170,169,874,415,873],"class_list":["post-54149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-big-12","tag-college-football","tag-jacob-rodriguez","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-texas-tech-football","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-texas-tech-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54149","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=54149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}