{"id":680930,"date":"2026-01-16T04:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/680930\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T04:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:19:14","slug":"christian-mccaffrey-aaron-jones-and-jake-ferguson-are-finalists-for-nfls-salute-to-service-award-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/680930\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian McCaffrey, Aaron Jones and Jake Ferguson are finalists for NFL&#8217;s Salute to Service Award | NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 San Francisco 49ers All-Pro running back Christian McCaffrey, Minnesota Vikings running back Aaron Jones Sr. and Dallas Cowboys tight end Jake Ferguson are the finalists for the 15th annual Salute to Service Award.<\/p>\n<p>The award is given to a person who displays \u201cexceptional efforts\u201d to honor and support members of the military community. The winner will be recognized at NFL Honors on Feb. 5 during Super Bowl week.<\/p>\n<p>The finalists were announced Thursday by the NFL and USAA.<\/p>\n<p>Niners tight end George Kittle, the 2024 Salute to Service Award recipient, will be among the judges.<\/p>\n<p>AP NFL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 San Francisco 49ers All-Pro running back Christian McCaffrey, Minnesota Vikings running back Aaron Jones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2073],"tags":[7,233,259,2529,6,498,99472,9,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-680930","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-minnesotavikings","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-football","14":"tag-nfl-salute-to-service-finalists","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115902858205079299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680930","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=680930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}