{"id":949129,"date":"2026-07-18T19:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T19:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/949129\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T19:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T19:33:15","slug":"titans-jeffery-simmons-is-voted-the-top-interior-defensive-lineman-in-the-nfl-by-an-ap-panel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/949129\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans&#8217; Jeffery Simmons is voted the top interior defensive lineman in the NFL by an AP panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QR3IOMICK5A4NAQMHCRP327QHQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/titans-contract-jeffery-simmons-4b360aa090b52a3c8f4829a4c50ce8d5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffery Simmons<\/a> followed his first All-Pro season by signing a contract that made him the highest-paid defensive tackle ever in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QT7MIHOHSRBJ3H2QECSHQ7EIS4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennessee-titans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee Titans<\/a> believe the hefty price that included $100 million in guaranteed money was well worth it and plenty of others agree as Simmons was picked as the top interior defensive lineman in the NFL by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeffery Simmons followed his first All-Pro season by signing a contract that made him the highest-paid defensive tackle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[104526,125552,7,6,111730,498,40927,42950,835,110248,8865,9,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":["post-949129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennessee-titans","tag-2026-nfl-schedule","tag-fbn-top-5-interior-dl","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-2026-news","tag-nfl-football","tag-nfl-highlights","tag-nfl-latest-news","tag-nfl-news","tag-nfl-schedule-2026","tag-nfl-scores","tag-sports","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-tennesseetitans","tag-titans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116942654914426197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949129","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=949129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}