{"id":837314,"date":"2026-03-27T17:39:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/837314\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:39:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:39:40","slug":"panthers-letting-rico-dowdle-walk-to-steelers-ranked-among-best-offseason-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/837314\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers Letting Rico Dowdle Walk to Steelers Ranked Among Best Offseason Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s still some money to be spent in free agency, and a few big names that remain on the open market. So what about some of the NFL transactions that have already taken place in 2026?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/stories\/nfl\/2026-nfl-free-agency-10-best-under-the-radar-deals-so-far-offseason\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Williams of FOX Sports <\/a> came up with a list of the top 10 offseason deals that have gone under the radar. He feels that the third-best of these moves was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh_steelers\/44\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>\u2019 free-agent  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/steelers\/onsi\/news\/rico-dowdle-big-goal-first-pittsburgh-steelers-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquisition of running back Rico Dowdle<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>A former Carolina Panther leaves the NFC South for the AFC North<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAfter back-to-back, 1,000-yard seasons,\u201d explained Williams, \u201cthe former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/carolina_panthers\/49\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> runner cashed in for a decent deal in free agency. A physical runner capable of producing explosive plays, Dowdle also lands in a spot where he should get the opportunity to be the lead back in a rotation that includes Jaylen Warren and Kaleb Johnson.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s still some money to be spent in free agency, and a few big names that remain on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-837314","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-nfl","13":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116302365580097223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837314","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=837314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}