{"id":874091,"date":"2026-04-25T04:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874091\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T04:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:18:18","slug":"former-notre-dame-te-eli-raridon-heads-to-new-england-in-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874091\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Notre Dame TE Eli Raridon heads to New England in NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Notre Dame TE Eli Raridon heads to New England in NFL Draft<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/>Fighting Irish TE overcomes knee injuries to make NFL<\/p>\n<p>April 24, 2026, 11:16 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Former Notre Dame <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/notre-dame-fighting-irish\/3509\/\" data-autotag=\"848d37ce-c6ca-4602-acb8-8588a32d27e6\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Fighting Irish<\/a> tight end Eli Raridon is going to the <a href=\"https:\/\/patriotswire.usatoday.com\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a>. The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-england-patriots\/348\" data-autotag=\"04de4087-8f54-4765-a468-9b4c74f7fb14\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Patriots<\/a> selected Raridon 31st in the third round &#8212; 95th overall &#8212; of the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Rarido overcame two ACL tears in the same knee during his Notre Dame career. He had four seasons with the Fighting Irish, finishing with 48 receptions for 623 yards and three touchdowns in 40 games. 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All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Notre Dame TE Eli Raridon heads to New England in NFL DraftFighting Irish TE overcomes knee injuries&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[95878,7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208,101840,96358,97116,95882,96027,95893,95896,97160,96854,96683,101841,96088,95899,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-874091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-new-england","11":"tag-new-england-patriots","12":"tag-newengland","13":"tag-newenglandpatriots","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-patriots","16":"tag-sstssportscollegefighting-irishfootball","17":"tag-sstsnfootball","18":"tag-tag2026-nfl-draft","19":"tag-tagamerican-football","20":"tag-tagcollege-sports","21":"tag-tagfacebook","22":"tag-tagnational-sports","23":"tag-tagnew-england","24":"tag-tagnew-england-patriots","25":"tag-tagnfl-draft","26":"tag-tagnotre-dame-fighting-irish","27":"tag-tagnotre-dame-fighting-irish-football","28":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","29":"tag-tagsports-news","30":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874091","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=874091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}