{"id":753715,"date":"2026-02-15T11:13:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/753715\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T11:13:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:13:42","slug":"which-falcons-free-agents-should-atlanta-prioritize-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/753715\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Falcons free agents should Atlanta prioritize in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">With the Super Bowl in the rearview and the new league year just a few short weeks away, it\u2019s time to turn the page and start thinking about the Falcons\u2019 2026 season and what needs to happen this offseason to field a competitive team in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefalcoholic.com\/atlanta-falcons-news\/91646\/james-pearce-jr-arrested-domestic-violence-aggravated-battery-stalking-fleeing-police-bond\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:James Pearce Jr\u2019s arrest;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">James Pearce Jr\u2019s arrest<\/a> may change the calculations on the team\u2019s needs this offseason, and the list of pending free agents opens up some big questions the team needs to answer while building the 2026 roster. The Falcons also have limited draft capital to work with this year, which complicates things a bit too.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Falcons are projected to have about $27.7 million in cap space to work with his offseason based on the top-51 calculation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here\u2019s the full list of the Falcons\u2019 pending free agents in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Falcons pending free agents 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Which players need to be the top priority to retain, and which players can the Falcons let walk? Put yourself in Matt Ryan\u2019s shoes and let us know in the comments what you\u2019d do with this group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Super Bowl in the rearview and the new league year just a few short weeks away,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,11426,11413,27652,6710,4760,11423,224,9703,7,1497,27650,11415,11419,27646,6153,7862,2859,55,6,20223,35943,9704,2661,11417,11410,6433],"class_list":{"0":"post-753715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlantafalcons","11":"tag-bradley-pinion","12":"tag-david-onyemata","13":"tag-deangelo-malone","14":"tag-dee-alford","15":"tag-easton-stick","16":"tag-elijah-wilkinson","17":"tag-falcons","18":"tag-feleipe-franks","19":"tag-football","20":"tag-james-pearce","21":"tag-josh-woods","22":"tag-kaden-elliss","23":"tag-kentavius-street","24":"tag-khalid-kareem","25":"tag-kyle-pitts","26":"tag-leonard-floyd","27":"tag-matt-ryan","28":"tag-new-orleans-saints","29":"tag-nfl","30":"tag-nfl-football-game","31":"tag-ronnie-harrison","32":"tag-teagan-quitoriano","33":"tag-the-falcons","34":"tag-troy-andersen","35":"tag-tyler-allgeier","36":"tag-zane-gonzalez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116074355421550326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753715","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=753715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}