{"id":140633,"date":"2025-06-18T21:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T21:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/140633\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T21:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T21:43:10","slug":"kaden-elliss-kyle-pitts-among-falcons-top-unrestricted-free-agents-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/140633\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaden Elliss, Kyle Pitts among Falcons&#8217; top unrestricted free agents in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/pff-grades-falcons-projected-starting-180042060.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Atlanta Falcons;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> have made numerous changes to their roster throughout the 2025 NFL offseason, especially on the defensive side of the ball. Even though the team will kick off training camp next month, it&#8217;s never too early to start looking ahead to next year.<\/p>\n<p>Several <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/atlanta-falcons-2025-position-preview-100356844.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:key players;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">key players<\/a>, including tight end <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/pro-football-focus-names-falcons-110234233.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kyle Pitts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Pitts<\/a>, right tackle Kaleb McGary and linebacker Kaden Elliss, are set to become unrestricted free agents in 2026. In total, Atlanta has 26 players entering a contract year.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>As you can see below, the team has 11 offensive free agents, 14 defensive free agents, and one special-teamer in need of a new contract in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>List of <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/atlanta-falcons\/323\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Falcons;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Falcons<\/a> offensive free agents in 2026 (11)List of Falcons defensive free agents in 2026 (14)List of Falcons special teams free agents in 2026 (1)<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Falcons Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefalconswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/falcons\/2025\/06\/18\/which-atlanta-falcons-players-will-be-free-agents-in-2026\/84244622007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Which Atlanta Falcons players will be free agents in 2026?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Which Atlanta Falcons players will be free agents in 2026?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Falcons have made numerous changes to their roster throughout the 2025 NFL offseason, especially on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[7861,223,254,2554,5199,12070,11413,22250,27652,6710,32791,2814,32793,11423,224,9703,7,11421,11415,11412,12715,11419,27649,27646,6153,7862,6,32792,9704,11417,11410,12069],"class_list":{"0":"post-140633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-arnold-ebiketie","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-brandon","13":"tag-caleb-johnson","14":"tag-david-onyemata","15":"tag-david-sills","16":"tag-deangelo-malone","17":"tag-dee-alford","18":"tag-defensive-free-agents","19":"tag-defensive-side","20":"tag-easton","21":"tag-elijah-wilkinson","22":"tag-falcons","23":"tag-feleipe-franks","24":"tag-football","25":"tag-jamal-agnew","26":"tag-kaden-elliss","27":"tag-kaleb-mcgary","28":"tag-keith-taylor","29":"tag-kentavius-street","30":"tag-kevin-king","31":"tag-khalid-kareem","32":"tag-kyle-pitts","33":"tag-leonard-floyd","34":"tag-nfl","35":"tag-offensive-free-agents","36":"tag-teagan-quitoriano","37":"tag-troy-andersen","38":"tag-tyler-allgeier","39":"tag-unrestricted-free-agents"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140633","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=140633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}