{"id":882035,"date":"2026-05-04T07:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/882035\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T07:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:57:24","slug":"sac-states-rodney-hammond-jr-joins-fox40-ahead-of-denver-broncos-rookie-minicamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/882035\/","title":{"rendered":"Sac State\u2019s Rodney Hammond Jr. joins FOX40 ahead of Denver Broncos rookie minicamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(FOX40.COM) \u2013 As rookie minicamps approach across the NFL, Sacramento State running back Rodney Hammond Jr. is getting his opportunity to continue his football career at the professional level.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing his college career with the Hornets, he\u2019s earned an invite to the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/denver\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Denver Broncos;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Denver Broncos&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Broncos<\/a> rookie minicamp.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Before heading to Denver, Hammond Jr. sat down with FOX40 Sports Director Asia Cymone Smith to reflect on his journey, what this opportunity means, and how he\u2019s preparing for what comes next.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fox40.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(FOX40.COM) \u2013 As rookie minicamps approach across the NFL, Sacramento State running back Rodney Hammond Jr. is getting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,3365,231,258,2426,7,9724,6,76824,3494,79704],"class_list":["post-882035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denver-broncos","tag-broncos","tag-college-career","tag-denver","tag-denver-broncos","tag-denverbroncos","tag-football","tag-football-career","tag-nfl","tag-rodney-hammond-jr","tag-sacramento-state","tag-the-hornets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116515244829873959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882035","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=882035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}