{"id":855886,"date":"2026-04-05T22:43:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/855886\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T22:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:43:30","slug":"bears-denied-compensatory-picks-for-former-assistant-gm-ian-cunningham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/855886\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears denied compensatory picks for former assistant GM Ian Cunningham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL informed the <a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/nfl\/chicago-bears\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bears<\/a> that they will not receive compensatory draft picks for former assistant general manager Ian Cunningham, who departed to lead the Atlanta Falcons&#8217; front office. Chicago appealed the NFL&#8217;s initial decision to deny compensatory picks after losing Cunningham, who spent the previous four seasons in Chicago. The NFL, however, once again determined that Cunningham is not considered the &#8220;primary football executive&#8221; with the Falcons. In Atlanta, Cunningham will report to Matt Ryan, the former Falcons MVP quarterback who was tabbed as the team&#8217;s new president of football operations earlier this offseason. In 2020, NFL owners&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL informed the Chicago Bears that they will not receive compensatory draft picks for former assistant general&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,224,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-855886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlantafalcons","11":"tag-falcons","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116354522554758484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855886","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=855886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}