{"id":165468,"date":"2025-06-28T14:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T14:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/165468\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T14:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T14:51:10","slug":"who-are-contenders-for-no-1-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/165468\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are contenders for No. 1 spot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the sleepier times on the NFL calendar will be kicked into gear <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-top-100-premieres-june-30-as-x-originals-series-produced-by-nfl-films\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monday<\/a> when the unveiling of the annual NFL Top 100 begins.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the 15th straight year in which current league players have voted to determine the Top 100 and, ultimately, their choice for the No. 1 player in the NFL land.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning Monday &#8212; on X, NFL+ and NFL.com &#8212; and running through Friday, Aug. 29, two new players will be revealed each weekday until the arrival of the top 10 at 8 p.m. ET, Monday, Sept. 1 on NFL Network.<\/p>\n<p>Just who are the top contenders for the top spot?<\/p>\n<p>With some help from NFL Research, here&#8217;s a quick look at some prime candidates and a look back at the gridiron greats who have previously earned the No. 1 accolade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the sleepier times on the NFL calendar will be kicked into gear Monday when the unveiling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[1227,117,53,256,54,258,7,8633,734,872,110,895,251,1304,88,609,8206,109,894,37018,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-165468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cleveland-browns","13":"tag-denver-broncos","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-jamarr-chase","16":"tag-jayden-daniels","17":"tag-josh-allen","18":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","19":"tag-lamar-jackson","20":"tag-miami-dolphins","21":"tag-myles-garrett","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-no-minute","24":"tag-patrick-surtain-ii","25":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","26":"tag-saquon-barkley","27":"tag-top-100","28":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114761556738990812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165468","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=165468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}