{"id":780599,"date":"2026-02-27T20:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/780599\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T20:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:22:25","slug":"report-jaleel-mclaughlin-expected-to-be-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/780599\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Jaleel McLaughlin expected to be free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News<\/p>\n<p>McLaughlin was a restricted free agent<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Hero-image--scale lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/25023402_G.jpg\" alt=\"Denver Broncos running back Jaleel McLaughlin runs with the ball against the Arizona Cardinals during the second half of an NFL preseason football game, Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, in Glendale, Ariz.\" style=\"object-fit:contain;\" height=\"560\" data-reactid=\"394\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Denver Broncos running back Jaleel McLaughlin runs with the ball against the Arizona Cardinals during the second half of an NFL preseason football game, Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, in Glendale, Ariz.<\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Ross D. Franklin<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Broncos don&#8217;t plan to tender running back Jaleel McLaughlin, meaning he&#8217;ll become a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Fowler of ESPN first reported.<\/p>\n<p>In eight regular season games the former Youngstown State running back had 37 carries for 187 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>McLaughlin spent three seasons in Denver accounted for 1,093 yards on 226 attempts and 9 touchdowns. He also had 59 receptions for 263 yards and 4 touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News McLaughlin was a restricted free agent Denver Broncos running back Jaleel McLaughlin runs with the ball against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,2426,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-780599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-denverbroncos","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116144463525475351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780599","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=780599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}