{"id":780005,"date":"2026-02-27T14:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/780005\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:13:14","slug":"patriots-came-close-to-extending-khyiris-tonga-in-season-now-his-return-is-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/780005\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots came close to extending Khyiris Tonga in-season. Now, his return is uncertain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">According to a source, the Patriots and Tonga were close on a contract extension before the playoffs. That deal never materialized, falling apart at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The two parties talked again in Indianapolis, but couldn\u2019t come to an agreement because Tonga\u2019s price tag has gone up following the playoff run. \u2026 [T]he Patriots\u2019 original deal, which was close, is no longer in the ballpark for what the defensive tackle might make in free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The Patriots aren\u2019t done negotiating with Tonga, but there\u2019s a real chance he lands with another team in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a source, the Patriots and Tonga were close on a contract extension before the playoffs. That&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,57412,3529,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-780005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-england","10":"tag-new-england-patriots","11":"tag-new-england-patriots-free-agency","12":"tag-new-england-patriots-rumors","13":"tag-newengland","14":"tag-newenglandpatriots","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116143010808846852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780005","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=780005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}