{"id":331357,"date":"2023-09-15T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T23:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=331357"},"modified":"2023-09-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T00:00:00","slug":"bijan-robinson-donates-25k-to-austin-junior-jags-meets-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=331357","title":{"rendered":"Bijan Robinson donates $25k to Austin Junior Jags, meets team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former University of Texas running back Bijan Robinson continues to give back to the Austin community after making his way to the Atlanta Falcons &#8212; and the NFL Player&#8217;s Association took note of his efforts.<\/p>\n<p>With a donation of $25,000 to the Austin Junior Jags football and cheerleading program, Robinson was named the Week 2 NFLPA Community MVP, according to ESPN reporter Adam Schefter. He is the third rookie in league history to earn that award, Schefter said.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson also met with the players, and you can feel their excitement as he surprised them \u2014 in the video posted to marketing organization Capture Sports &amp; Entertainment, you can hear one of the kids repeating &#8220;Bijan Robinson&#8221; non-stop like a broken record. The young athletes jumped up to hug him and dap him up.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bijan5Robinson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Bijan5Robinson<\/a> surprised the Austin Jr. Jaguars by attending some of their football games recently AND donating $25,000 to their organization! The kiddos were so excited to see Bijan in their locker room &amp; Bijan was just as happy to spend time with these amazing kids. <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/2764.png\" alt=\"\u2764\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tQvb26c6uQ\">pic.twitter.com\/tQvb26c6uQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Capture Sports &amp; Entertainment (@CaptureSportEnt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaptureSportEnt\/status\/1700260121316860193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Junior Jags consists of four football teams and 17 cheerleaders aged 5 to 12. It focuses on underserved Texan kids, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/football\/2023\/09\/15\/nfl-atlanta-falcons-running-back-texas-football-bijan-robinson-austin-junior-jags\/70866434007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Austin American-Statesman.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The $25,000 donation will be used for new uniforms, cover the costs of field dues, and go toward the end-of-year celebration, according to the news outlet.<\/p>\n<p>As part of awarding Robinson the Community MVP, the NFLPA will also donate $10,000 to a foundation of Robinson&#8217;s choice, the Statesman reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing involved in youth football is what helped me get to where I am today,\u201d Robinson said in a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/nflpa-names-bijan-robinson-community-mvp-for-week-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC Sports<\/a>. \u201cSo I wanted to take some of the burden off these young athletes and their families heading into this year\u2019s season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It certainly takes off some burden \u2014 and gives these kids a moment they&#8217;ll never forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Bijan Robinson donated $25,000 to the Austin Junior Jags football and cheerleading program, which helps underserved Texan youth athletes.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331359,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331357\/revisions\/331359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}