{"id":714701,"date":"2026-01-29T19:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/714701\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T19:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:45:15","slug":"espn-drops-top-50-nfl-free-agents-of-2026-4-of-top-21-are-packers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/714701\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN drops top 50 NFL free agents of 2026, 4 of top 21 are Packers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">ESPN published a list of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47734163\/2026-nfl-free-agency-top-50-ranking-hendrickson-pickens-hall-willis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">projected top-50 free agents available for the 2026 offseason<\/a>, which includes many Green Bay Packers at the top of the rankings. As we\u2019ve written about before, the volume of free agents that the Packers are expected to lose this offseason is the reason why they\u2019ll likely receive the maximum four compensatory draft picks (in 2027), and a reason why they\u2019ll want to stay out of unrestricted free agents (to not offset those losses and lose those compensatory picks).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On a positional level, here\u2019s how their rankings shook out:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here are a couple of thoughts on this FA class:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN published a list of their projected top-50 free agents available for the 2026 offseason, which includes many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,9684,2702,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-714701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-green-bay-packers-free-agency","12":"tag-green-bay-packers-news","13":"tag-greenbay","14":"tag-greenbaypackers","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115980109389162025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714701","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=714701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}