{"id":939076,"date":"2026-07-07T11:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/939076\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:57:12","slug":"kansas-city-chiefs-to-face-player-no-97-of-the-nfl-top-100-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/939076\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Chiefs to face player No. 97 of the &#8216;NFL Top 100&#8217; in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 7, 2026, 6:00 a.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The &#8220;NFL Top 100 Players&#8221; is an annual NFL offseason tradition. There are a few names from the <a data-autotag=\"e91367c2-d7b8-4bec-9359-95947acd6b0e\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> expected to make the cut, but there are also many opponents featured in this year&#8217;s rankings. Player No. 97 is a player they are scheduled to see across from them this coming season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">No. 97 is <a data-autotag=\"91fb7995-f6cd-4aa3-adbc-98eb39d76a79\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/seattle-seahawks\/361\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> linebacker Ernest Jones IV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Jones started 15 games for the Seahawks in the 2025 season, earning Second-team All-Pro honors. He was a standout during the Super Bowl LX victory over the New England Patriots, recording 11 tackles, 10 of which were solo, in the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Jones and the Seahawks met the Chiefs in a preseason matchup last year, but head coach Andy Reid notably rested his starters. The Chiefs will visit the Seahawks again in Week 7 of the 2026 season at Lumen Field on Sunday Night Football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Produced by NFL Films and the X Original Series, the new season of NFL Top 100 features short-form episodes that reveal the league&#8217;s top players, as voted on exclusively by current NFL players. Episodes debut weekdays on X through Friday, September 4, and will air later on NFL+, as well as on other NFL-owned and operated social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 7, 2026, 6:00 a.m. CT The &#8220;NFL Top 100 Players&#8221; is an annual NFL offseason tradition. There&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[95878,346,7,118,110,2438,2437,6,119552,96828,96829,95882,98642,96831,96540,95896,95888,95895,95906,95977,95883,95881],"class_list":["post-939076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-accessfree","tag-chiefs","tag-football","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascitychiefs","tag-nfl","tag-sourcechiefs-wire","tag-sstssportsnflchiefs","tag-sstsnchiefs","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagernest-jones-iv","tag-tagfootball","tag-tagkansas-city-chiefs","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagseattle-seahawks","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116878576401120082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939076","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=939076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}