The three finalists for this year\u2019s Salute to Service Award, sponsored by USAA, were announced earlier on Thursday, and the Minnesota Vikings\u2019 nominee is among them.<\/p>\n
Vikings running back Aaron Jones has joined Dallas Cowboys tight end Jake Ferguson and San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey as the finalists for this year\u2019s award. The winner will be announced at this year\u2019s NFL Honors ceremony, which will take place on 5 February in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
Jones\u2019 family has a distinguished history of military service. His late father, Alvin Sr., served 29 years in the Army, and his mother, Vurgess, served 27 years in the Army. His older brother, Xavier, is currently serving in the Air Force. Aaron and his twin brother, Alvin Jr., also founded the A&A All the Way Foundation, a nonprofit organization that emphasizes support of youth in military families. In addition, for each home game during the 2025 season, Jones hosted a military family, giving them each a personal visit to express his thanks and making sure they had a memorable game day experience.<\/p>\n
Should Jones win the award, USAA will donate $25,000 to his nonprofit of choice, and the NFL Foundation will match that donation with another $25,000.<\/p>\n
Congratulations to Aaron Jones on being one of the three finalists for this year\u2019s USAA Salute to Service Award, and here\u2019s hoping that he\u2019s the one who gets his name called at the NFL Honors ceremony for the big prize!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three finalists for this year\u2019s Salute to Service Award, sponsored by USAA, were announced earlier on Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[7,233,259,52778,1312,2529,6,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-680700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-vikings","11":"tag-minnesota-vikings-2025-season","12":"tag-minnesota-vikings-news","13":"tag-minnesotavikings","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115902335732323739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}