{"id":806994,"date":"2026-03-11T20:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/806994\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T20:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:34:17","slug":"patriots-reach-decision-on-linebacker-jack-gibbens-as-league-year-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/806994\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots reach decision on linebacker Jack Gibbens as league year opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jack Gibbens officially reached the NFL\u2019s open market at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The New England Patriots declined to tender the linebacker prior to the start of the 2026 league year, as first reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DougKyed\/status\/2031824367936520694?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Boston Herald\u2019s Doug Kyed<\/a>. Unrestricted free agency now awaits for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Gibbens, 27, loomed as a restricted decision in Foxborough alongside quarterback Tommy DeVito, offensive tackle Yasir Durant, defensive tackle Jaquelin Roy and cornerback Alex Austin. He appeared in all 17 games last season while tallying 81 tackles, one sack, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 6-foot-3, 242-pound product of Abilene Christian and Minnesota began his NFL career with head coach Mike Vrabel\u2019s former Tennessee Titans as an undrafted free agent in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Gibbens officially reached the NFL\u2019s open market at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. The New England Patriots&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,57412,726,728,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-806994","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-news","13":"tag-new-england-patriots-roster","14":"tag-newengland","15":"tag-newenglandpatriots","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116212456833511740","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806994","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=806994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}