{"id":809643,"date":"2026-03-13T08:10:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/809643\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:10:44","slug":"detroit-lions-sign-unrestricted-free-agent-ol-cade-mays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/809643\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions sign unrestricted free agent OL Cade Mays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Park, Mich. \u2013 The Detroit Lions announced today that they have signed unrestricted free agent OL Cade Mays. Contract terms were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Mays comes to Detroit after spending the first four seasons of his career with the Carolina Panthers (2022-25), with a training camp stint on the New York Giants&#8217; practice squad in 2024. He has appeared in 52-career games (27 starts), allowing only 5.0 sacks in that time.<\/p>\n<p>He originally entered the NFL with the Panthers as a sixth-round draft selection (199th overall) in the 2022 NFL Draft out of Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allen Park, Mich. \u2013 The Detroit Lions announced today that they have signed unrestricted free agent OL Cade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,416,8972,6476,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-809643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-carolinapanthers","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","13":"tag-news-umcu-transactions","14":"tag-news-press-releases","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116220857449988993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809643","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=809643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}