{"id":763646,"date":"2026-02-20T02:52:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/763646\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T02:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:52:36","slug":"previewing-an-offensive-player-from-each-position-to-watch-at-2026-nfl-combine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/763646\/","title":{"rendered":"Previewing an offensive player from each position to watch at 2026 NFL Combine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  OT: Francis Mauigoa, Miami<\/p>\n<p>Miami reached their first national championship game appearance since the 2002 season, with quarterback Carson Beck completing 72.4 percent of his passes for 30 touchdowns. There&#8217;s certainly a direct correlation between the Hurricanes&#8217; success and the production from Francis Mauigoa.<\/p>\n<p>The three-year starter was a fixture not only for Beck, but 2025 No. 1 overall pick Cam Ward \u2013 allowing only three sacks in his past two seasons. He received an 87 pass-blocking grade from Pro Football Focus his junior season while also receiving First-Team All-American and All-ACC honors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Francis Mauigoa is a mauler with the heavy hands and nasty temperament to dominate defenders at the point of attack,&#8221; <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/bucky-brooks-top-five-2026-nfl-draft-prospects-by-position-1-0-jordyn-tyson-leads-wr-rankings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> Brooks. &#8220;While the Miami product must play with better pad level, the 6-6, 335-pound junior is a Day 1 starter at right tackle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While unlikely to slip out of the first round of this year&#8217;s draft, he&#8217;ll be someone the Raiders still take a good look at with intentions of improving their offensive line this offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OT: Francis Mauigoa, Miami Miami reached their first national championship game appearance since the 2002 season, with quarterback&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[34345,7,268,269,1744,393,2455,2454,5262,270,6,525,95713],"class_list":{"0":"post-763646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-2026-draft","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-home-centerpiece","11":"tag-home-latest-stories","12":"tag-las-vegas","13":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","14":"tag-lasvegas","15":"tag-lasvegasraiders","16":"tag-news-combine","17":"tag-news-draft","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-raiders","20":"tag-road-to-the-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116100697019163649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763646","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=763646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}