{"id":65475,"date":"2025-11-26T04:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/65475\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T04:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:51:09","slug":"texas-tech-linebacker-jacob-rodriguez-earns-major-award-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/65475\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech linebacker Jacob Rodriguez earns major award recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech linebacker Jacob Rodriguez has been named a finalist for two major college football awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rodriguez is a finalist for the Bednarik Award for outstanding defensive player of the year and the Lott Impact Trophy, which recognizes his work on and off the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The linebacker has achieved a rare statistical milestone this season. Rodriguez is the only FBS player since 2005 to record at least five forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries and four interceptions in the same season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rodriguez is currently leading the daily Heisman Fan Vote with 32.8 percent support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech linebacker Jacob Rodriguez has been named a finalist for two major college&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[34008,34007,34005,3785,34006,168,170,169,311,1775,1769,874,299,310],"class_list":["post-65475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-award-season","tag-bednarik-award","tag-heisman","tag-jacob-rodriguez","tag-lott-impact-trophy","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-red-raider-football","tag-red-raiders","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-football","tag-ttu","tag-ttu-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65475","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=65475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}