{"id":86096,"date":"2025-12-12T22:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/86096\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T22:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:53:09","slug":"jacob-rodriguez-wins-lombardi-award-first-ever-in-texas-tech-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/86096\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Rodriguez wins Lombardi Award first ever in Texas Tech history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech Linebacker Jacob Rodriguez was named the 2025 Lombardi Award winner Wednesday night. The award is presented to the best lineman or linebacker in the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is the first time in Texas Tech history a Red Raider has received the Lombardi Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Along with the Lombardi Award, Rodriguez also won the Butkus Award, the Nagurski Trophy and the Pony Express Award with his teammate David Bailey. He now claims four national honors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/news\/2025\/12\/10\/football-rodriguez-adds-to-trophy-case-with-lombardi-award\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/news\/2025\/12\/10\/football-rodriguez-adds-to-trophy-case-with-lombardi-award\">Read the full story here<\/a>. <\/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 was named the 2025 Lombardi Award winner Wednesday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3785,319,251,41248,168,170,169,1769,22691,874],"class_list":["post-86096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-jacob-rodriguez","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lombardi-award","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-athletics","tag-texas-tech-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86096","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=86096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}